RE: Second source notes App store trend, 10 Billion served
I'm trying to understand the logic of those stating the new Mac OS X Lion features are not applicable to enterprise administrators. When a personal attack is included in those claims, as it was in the thread stating my submissions are slipping, I conduct additional research. That additional research suggests my original thoughts are not only correct, but shared by others.
Just this week Deb Shinder, also a TechRepublic contributor, asked in her Windows 7 News newsletter whether software is becoming irrelevant. She wrote, and I quote, "And now the entire concept of software is shifting. With the trend toward iOS and Android, first on smartphones and now on tablets (and with Windows Phone 7 following the same software model), users are being trained to think in terms of 'apps,' ... A few weeks back, I wrote about Apple's decision to expand the App Store idea to include distributing software for OS X and asked you whether Microsoft should have an app store for Windows..."
That's just what I wrote about enterprise administrators needing to understand, that Lion will incorporate this, the first successful app store, natively within the OS. I continue to believe, too, that administrators need to be familiar with the new OS' other features, too.
It's no secret Apple's on a roll. Other companies are following its lead, whether in attempts to rush new tablets to market, build better phones, build their own app stores, whatever. All one must do is look at sales, revenue and statistical data. The 10 billionth (that's billion with a b) app was just downloaded from the app store. There's incredible traction there.
To say administrators should only be aware of one of several new features in an important new OS is disingenuous at best and delusional at worst, not because of the features themselves, but because of the manner in which those features are changing the way users obtain, interact with and maintain their software and computing platforms.
Hopefully that makes more sense and better explains why I (and I suspect others) feel Mac OS X Lion's features are important for everyone, including enterprise administrators.
Contributr 
