For these of us residing within the Apple ecosystem, the App Retailer is second nature. It is a core a part of the Apple expertise and the go-to spot for any functions you may want to your machine. So I used to be pretty shocked to study that up till right this moment, the hyperlink apps.apple.com would ship you to a web page with details about the App Retailer, however not truly take you to stated digital storefront.
That is proper, it took till the 12 months 2025 for Apple to create a browser model of the App Retailer.
Possibly it by no means appeared vital because the App Retailer is pre-loaded on any Apple machine. I do not foresee many edge circumstances the place I might need to look in a browser slightly than truly use the App Retailer on one in every of my machines, though I am certain now that I’ve stated so, I will wind up doing precisely that inside per week. However nonetheless, the primary App Retailer debuted 17 years in the past. Which, significantly in tech years, is a very, actually very long time.
In any case, the browser App Retailer permits you to decide your {hardware} platform from a dropdown on the far left, so you possibly can peruse software program for various platforms wherever you are on the net. There’s additionally a search area in addition to an inventory of app classes that you may sift by way of. All of the stuff you’d count on from the precise App Retailer, simply in a browser. Entries for particular functions will immediate you to open the itemizing within the machine’s App Retailer the place the button would usually allow you to purchase the software program. Which leaves me as soon as once more shocked this took so lengthy to create and likewise questioning who will truly use it.