Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Sat 29th Aug 2009 01:21 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"With the Ubuntu Software Store, Canonical is hoping to unify all of the different package management needs into a single, unified interface. While this will not be achieved in Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical is hoping that all of the capabilities of the update-manager, Synaptic, the computer janitor application, gdebi, and other package management-related programs will be merged into Ubuntu Software Store. When this has occurred, it will be easier on the new end-user having to just deal with a single program to provide all of this functionality."
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I'm a big fan of Apple's App Store, so it's great to see Ubuntu be the first to bring this setup to the desktop. However, it's a terribly old-fashioned looking implementation of the idea.
With a bit of WebKit integration, Canonical could've created a very modern store with all the things you'd find on Amazon or iTunes. Instead, you have the very basic Add/Remove Applications / Synaptic interface with a checkout facility.
It's great progress for Linux, especially as a platform targeting commercial software companies, but will it achieve its potential when the execution seems so lacking in ambition and care?
I hope it's just a proof of concept, but I suspect that an HTML based app store is not on the cards.