You should lower the price point to somewhere between $2-$5 and keep it there. It would be a shame to lose the top app store ranking when it goes back to $15.

You may be right, but another thing to keep in mind is the volume needed to maintain the same amount of income at a lower price point.

Staying higher in the rankings isn't worth it just for the sake of the rankings if you're only making the same amount of money.

Plus, there's the additional support cost.

Or let it hike back up to $15 to show people what they missed out on, then do a sale next month for $5/copy.

Microsoft needs to break Windows 8 Metro away from the desktop and make it tablet only, why is this so hard for them to see?

because android isn't going anywhere with it's ridiculous fragmentation. and Microsoft wont be going either if they want their app store to be a success.

hasn't linux been proclaimed 'ready for the world' every year since 1997?

Has anyone tried using this with Boot Camp on a Mac yet?

Somewhat related but if you just want to play around and you have Parallels, you can install that by going to new virtual machine, and the developer preview version of win 8 is one of the choices. It expires in two weeks.

It works, but I couldn't find a way to install Boot Camp stuff, so it's pretty miserable experience (no right click, no two-finger scrolling, have to manually find Wireless drivers, I don't have audio working, etc.).

Bummer, hopefully it will be easy to set up. To get a good feel for this we really need multitouch support.

At least with the dev preview, the way to do it was to fire up Boot Camp in Lion, have it make the Windows 7 drivers USB stick, then quit Lion. Pop over to Win 8 and then install the drivers. But they don't all work (at least, I never got multitouch working).

Why do we need to bother reading it when half the Apple blogs are just re-writing and regurgitating the book anyway?

The App Store is a very successful distribution engine and marketing service, most devs I know are quite pleased with it's existence and Gatekeeper ultimately will make it stronger. I would be extraordinarily disappointed if Apple ever went 'App Store only' though.

I think it's more likely they'll add ever more developer hurdles and effectively ghettoize unsigned apps than ever just flip a switch and announce "App Store only!"

Unless they change gears and hype up OS XI as a game-changing iOS/OS X merger.

They've certainly taken some steps that are perfect to tease out slippery slope paranoia. It would be a bit scary if there weren't easily accessible alternative OSes.

How will Gatekeeper make it stronger?

Microsoft seems confused, but I am genuinely interested in Windows 8 and Metro. Hopefully they ditch their legacy stuff though and make a clean break a la iOS/OS X

This should be more popular, it's a compelling read.

Requires you to have some expertise with Adwords and Facebook ads, otherwise you'll blow tons of money attempting to generate leads and sell nothing. It can work though.