Windows store programs as I see it
After working for a while on Linux, I was so used to using repositories that, returning back to Windows, I was literally in shock that in order to add a new program, I had to first find it on the Internet, download the distribution, and only after answering on a bunch of questions, install it. At the same time, as we all know, the program should be downloaded only from the official site, otherwise it is easy to run into a virus.
Next, suppose I worked some time with a program that I liked and wanted to buy it. What do I need to do? Naturally: Menu-> About-> Buy-> Program Site. Here to read, where and how to transfer your money, how to accept the license key after the transfer. So for each program. Do you think that due to the dreary process of the purchase, the author of the application loses a huge part of the buyers? How lazy are you? Personally, I almost always find it easier to find a free alternative to this program (in 95% of cases it is) than to spend my time (note, not money!) To pay for a license key for an application. The matter is not about money, I absolutely do not mind $ 20-30 for a well-made program. I feel sorry for my time.
The problem is elegantly solved by Apple with its Apple Store. Buying a program with a few clicks is something that modern Windows programs lack! Why is there no Microsoft Marketplace with a huge database of programs where I could go and download and buy the software I need in a couple of minutes? Here everyone would benefit: the authors of the programs that regularly receive their money, Microsoft, receiving interest from each transaction, and, most importantly, ordinary users, for whom the process of buying a program becomes trivial. Is not it so?
Apart from myself being smarter than marketers from Microsoft, I ask: why is there still no centralized place for downloading and buying Windows programs? Thinking about it, I put on an image of the program, which is something like the repository + of the Windows program store with the ability to quickly search, sort by groups, etc .:
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(I know that QIP and Miranda are free programs, this is just for example =)
Once again, a brief idea: a repository of Windows programs with a constantly updated database, with guaranteed absence of viruses in distributions like in Linux + the ability to quickly buy the application you like in the Apple Store.
Starting to create this service, I questioned its usefulness, because if it is so useful and simple, why does it not exist so far? Or does it exist? Why is it so difficult for each developer to promote his project and the user to download and pay for the program? If anyone is interested, welcome to the comments. Perhaps there are a couple of people who will somehow help me in organizing such a service?
Next, suppose I worked some time with a program that I liked and wanted to buy it. What do I need to do? Naturally: Menu-> About-> Buy-> Program Site. Here to read, where and how to transfer your money, how to accept the license key after the transfer. So for each program. Do you think that due to the dreary process of the purchase, the author of the application loses a huge part of the buyers? How lazy are you? Personally, I almost always find it easier to find a free alternative to this program (in 95% of cases it is) than to spend my time (note, not money!) To pay for a license key for an application. The matter is not about money, I absolutely do not mind $ 20-30 for a well-made program. I feel sorry for my time.
The problem is elegantly solved by Apple with its Apple Store. Buying a program with a few clicks is something that modern Windows programs lack! Why is there no Microsoft Marketplace with a huge database of programs where I could go and download and buy the software I need in a couple of minutes? Here everyone would benefit: the authors of the programs that regularly receive their money, Microsoft, receiving interest from each transaction, and, most importantly, ordinary users, for whom the process of buying a program becomes trivial. Is not it so?
Apart from myself being smarter than marketers from Microsoft, I ask: why is there still no centralized place for downloading and buying Windows programs? Thinking about it, I put on an image of the program, which is something like the repository + of the Windows program store with the ability to quickly search, sort by groups, etc .:
')
(I know that QIP and Miranda are free programs, this is just for example =)
Once again, a brief idea: a repository of Windows programs with a constantly updated database, with guaranteed absence of viruses in distributions like in Linux + the ability to quickly buy the application you like in the Apple Store.
Starting to create this service, I questioned its usefulness, because if it is so useful and simple, why does it not exist so far? Or does it exist? Why is it so difficult for each developer to promote his project and the user to download and pay for the program? If anyone is interested, welcome to the comments. Perhaps there are a couple of people who will somehow help me in organizing such a service?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/77653/
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