Apple Seed

News of the iPhone Application Store has been met by some saying the costs are too high and terms of use, too restrictive. While others point to competitors charging more and offering less security.

It’s not an argument that interests me. What does interest me is Apple’s habit of trying something out in one space, then rolling it out in another.

For example, Apple has offered HD trailers for download to iTunes for a while now, but recently made HD film rentals commercially available to Apple TV customers.

So my questions is, could the iTunes Application Store one day be used to supply software to the Mac, while adding some of the features and security being offered by the iPhone App Store?

I can see the smaller 3rd party developers gaining the changes of having their software more visible. Whereas the Adobes in this world, who already sell their software though Apple retail stores, would have software updates and more importantly upgrades, automatically offered to users of their software.

What benefits could be persuade user to only run Apple Certified Software on their Macs? Guaranteed up-time?

Making it compulsory wouldn’t be an option, so there would have to something to entice users into using the store. Or perhaps not. Perhaps convenience alone would be the attraction.