Ged Meheux from Icon Factory told us on last Sunday's TUAW Talkcast that they just weren't ready to release Twitterrific 4 on Day One.Īs with the iOS App Store, it will take some time to see just how popular and widely-used the Mac App Store will be. What does this tell us? A lot of developers may have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, or simply didn't get their apps ready in time to make the App Store launch.
Some other free apps, Kindle for Mac, VLC, and HandBrake, were not here. Want a financial app like Quicken, Cha-ching, Moneydance, or TurboTax? Sorry, you'll have to order 'em somewhere else. Adobe and Microsoft apps are completely missing. While Angry Birds for Mac is flying up the charts already (by the way, it's awesome on a 27" iMac), World of Warcraft and Starcraft, The Sims, and most other popular games aren't in the store yet. Web browsers? No Firefox, Opera, or Chrome. There was no sign of Postbox or Mailplane. In the area of communication tools, Adium, AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger were missing. Some of our favorite Mac utilities and apps were not in the store: No Scrivener, TextMate, Colloquy, Cyberduck (although my favorite FTP client Transmit is in the store), Bento, and Toast. Although Apple hasn't said anything about availability of iBooks for Mac, this would have been a great time to launch that app.
And even FaceTime, an app that we speculated might go from beta to production with the opening of the App Store, was untouched.
iWork '11 isn't the only Apple software that was a no-show - iWeb and iDVD are nowhere to be found. I was particularly dismayed, as I'm scheduled to write a book about the productivity suite whenever it finally arrives. While there were a few surprises, there were also some apps that were missing that we had really hoped for.įirst and foremost, the absence of iWork '11 from the Mac App Store was a shocker. After the shock of seeing the Mac OS X 10.6.6 update and Mac App Store arrive early this morning, as opposed to the 12 PM ET launch we expected, many of the TUAW bloggers began browsing the virtual aisles to see what was for sale.