Hard to say if Apple's Mac App Store actually will be
launching a week from today, but it's pretty obvious that the wait is shrinking. Over the weekend, a sect of czars in Cupertino updated the company's New and Announcements page for developers, with three notes in particular pointing to clarifications about the impending App Store for OS X. Naturally,
Apple has quite clearly established a file system usage requirement in order to "promote a more consistent user experience." This one dictates that Mac apps write files to "appropriate locations," freeing end-users from wasted moments of life wading through misplaced hierarchies. Contrary to behavior permitted in the mobile App Store, Apple is disallowing the submission of demos, trials or betas for the Mac App Store, instead encouraging coders to host those types of files on their own sites beforehand. Finally, Apple is allowing devs to create their own custom controls provided that the element or behavior "supports Apple's interface design principles." Hit the source for the full list of commandments, and be sure to take 'em to heart -- got that, rebel?
Apple dishes Mac App Store guidelines, hopes you'll code over the holidays originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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