{"id":3444,"date":"2011-05-27T15:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2011-05-27T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T20:07:44","slug":"amazons-mac-downloads-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/amazons-mac-downloads-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&rsquo;s Mac Downloads Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12202\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12202\"><p>At the moment, the Amazon Mac Downloads Store isn&rsquo;t nearly as impressive as the Mac App Store, but Amazon has a great deal of retailing experience and has shown the patience necessary to build up a market. In a year or so, the Mac Downloads Store could be a credible way to find and purchase a wide variety of Mac software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a user, I like that it&rsquo;s fully accessible from a Web browser. I can open tabs, copy and paste, find within the page, etc. Similarly, it&rsquo;s much more pleasant to shop for Kindle books and Amazon Instant Video than to use Apple&rsquo;s restrictive iBooks and iTunes Store interfaces.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: At the moment, the Amazon Mac Downloads Store isn&rsquo;t nearly as impressive as the Mac App Store, but Amazon has a great deal of retailing experience and has shown the patience necessary to build up a market. In a year or so, the Mac Downloads Store could be a credible way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}