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Apple?s App Store Opens

By Simon Fodden

Ooh, the App Store is here!

For those of you who use Macs at home or (less and less rarely) at the firm, this is Apple’s new venture in vertical integration of the computer experience and world domination. Just as the iTunes Store sells products for iPads, iPhones and iPods, so this Mac application will front end the sale of a thousand apps (as of opening) with more to come.

Whatever else it turns out to be, it’ll be a boon for the small app developer who has had a hard time getting our attention up till now.

For what it’s worth, a search in the store for the word [law] turns up two apps: Copyright Creativity, an explanation of U.S. copyright registration by an Illinois attorney, and Legal Will, also from the same Illinois source.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).