The article cites sales of Panic's Coda and BBEdit.
Panic has been around for a long time and has an established brand among Apple users. If I wanted a Panic product, I'd go directly to Panic.com where I've purchased from them before, and I'd prefer to give them their full price instead of 70%. Random Hanchor LLC product of questionable usefulness? I'll let Apple shield me. Hence, lower App Store sales of reputable products, higher sales of unknowns.
Coda and BBEdit are also relatively old products. Citing their slow sales as evidence that the Mac App Store is ineffective would be the same as citing slow sales of Adobe CS3 on the App Store if it were for sale. The primary purchasers for those products owned them well before the App Store even existed.
Panic has been around for a long time and has an established brand among Apple users. If I wanted a Panic product, I'd go directly to Panic.com where I've purchased from them before, and I'd prefer to give them their full price instead of 70%. Random Hanchor LLC product of questionable usefulness? I'll let Apple shield me. Hence, lower App Store sales of reputable products, higher sales of unknowns.
Coda and BBEdit are also relatively old products. Citing their slow sales as evidence that the Mac App Store is ineffective would be the same as citing slow sales of Adobe CS3 on the App Store if it were for sale. The primary purchasers for those products owned them well before the App Store even existed.