Revisiting Software Dispatch, 1994's Mac App Store on CD-ROM<article>
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<p>If you want to buy an app for your Mac today, you can just go to the App Store, click a button and—pausing only to reflect that
developers are increasingly abandoning it—within seconds it’s there, on your Mac, ready to be used.</p><p>Back in the day, though, you either had to trawl through catalogs or, if you were very lucky, get in your car and drive to a store that stocked Mac-compatible software. Or, in the brave new world of 1994, you could slip the above CD-ROM into your Mac—so long as it ran System 7 and had at least 4MB of RAM—and shop from the comfort of your chair. Or hell, if you had a mobile phone and a PowerBook, you could shop from the discomfort of a mountaintop, in a blizzard, in your underwear. It’s the future.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3031243/software/remembering-software-dispatch-1994s-mac-app-store-on-cd-rom.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Revisiting Software Dispatch, 1994's Mac App Store on CD-ROM
