At today's Apple conference, one of the big roll-outs is Apple's new Mac Store.
Basically, its a way to use aptitude on OSX, for paid apps.
Debian has had apt and aptitude for a long time, with or without graphical frontends, allowing users to search for, install, and update software to their Debian OS. Other GNU/Linux Operating Systems have had their own package managers for a number of years now as well.
But it took mobile phones for people to understand the concept of installing software without a cardboard box — the Application Markets on the iPhone and Android phones showed us this. Now, everyone understands how to add a program to their smartphone.
Apple has taken this 'easy installation' to their desktop OS, finally, 17 years after Debian's first release. Way to innovate, Steve. Windows 8 will probably have something like this as well, done horribly wrong of course.
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