Q: The Mac App Store Discussion, what is it for?

The Mac App Store, a feature once only available to iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch users, now is available for those who are able to load 10.6.6 on their Intel Macs. The link below shows which Macs are compatible with it:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2126451

Now while this board does have a Discussions forum for the App Store:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1432&start=0

It is not a place to:
1. Contact the developers of the said App, although some may look on it to see what people are saying.

2. Contact Apple. For that, there are these two links:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/

3. Complain about the price of a program.

4. Complain about the availability of the store in prior operating system updates.

5. Complain about the setup of 10.6.6 or later to get access to the Apple Store.

6. Complain about the compatibility of an application you bought from the store.

You can though enquire how users fixed issues of installation. Remember this is only a user to user board with moderators who help there be a lively discussion following the rules you agreed to when you signed up under the link for Help & Terms of Use.

You can though enquire how to contact developers if that was not made clear in the store.

You can enquire if users have found ways to make specific applications work.

You can certainly enquire how to prepare your machine for 10.6.6 to avoid issues of upgrading.

Note, this is just a user to user forum with people vollunteering who have technical knowledge which may differ from yours.

So don't panic and have fun!


This is the 1st version of this tip. It was submitted on January 7, 2011 by a brody.