computer software downloads from the net are nothing Modern to Mac users ; for as long as Macs have been Internet subject , Mac users have depended on the net for dispersion of shareware and boxless software . But one company breaking Modern terra firma in this arena is Vindico Technologies , whoseDeliver2MacWeb internet site call commercial-grade software useable for download .

Vindico ’s efforts started when its sister caller , UK - based Mac game publishing house Virtual Programming , found it increasingly hard to find retail shelf space for its own games . “ Especially in the Apple Stores , ” said Vindico founding father Mark Hinton , “ ledge space has been getting small for software , to make room for iPod accessories . For us , we needed to line up another delivery method . ”

Vindico launched Deliver2Mac set up this preceding April , first exclusively as a reseller of Virtual Programming games . Now the companionship is expanding its effort to attract third party Mac software publishers . Already it ’s attract give-and-take processing and public-service corporation Lord Mariner Software and Windows practical machine developer Parallels . The caller is offering Mac publisher a free deal to try their service as well .

“ masses lean to be suspect , and that ’s why we ’re letting developers try it first , ” pronounce Hinton . Vindico will host the software system for one calendar month , absolutely free . At the end of that month , its standard terms apply .

“ We ’re exercising some quality ascendence , ” tell Hinton , who add together that developers should n’t just require a innocent pass — Vindico want to verify that they ’re not shovel low - tone software off to client . So Deliver2Mac have sure that the software conform to with their own expectation of quality before agree to disperse it .

Broadband admission is now ubiquitous enough that Deliver2Mac can well publish content that previously would only check on a certificate of deposit - fixed storage or DVD - ROM — software installers measuring hundreds of M . What ’s more , Deliver2Mac employs encoding technology to check that that software plagiarist ca n’t just take the good and run .

While retail shore ledge quad for Mac software system may be dwindling , Hinton expects that demand for software program will continue to grow , especially with requirement for Macs increasing and broadband access reaching more and more homes .

“ The reason why the download business has worked for so long is because applications and utilities were very small in size of it . It ’s a bandwidth exit . That ’s becoming less of a job , and now it ’s realistic to pass large app and installers on to people online , ” said Hinton .

Deliver2Mac aid take out much of the complexness of large online single file transfers from smaller developers who do n’t want to be bothered with such thing , said Hinton .

“ The technology needs to be updated , there are bandwidth cost , the costs of merchandiser banking , and so on , ” he pronounce . “ We can take fear of that — we ’ve prove the engineering science with Virtual Programming . ”

If Deliver2Mac is successful , there ’s no intellect why Vindico could n’t begin “ Deliver2 ” sites for other platforms , as well , according to Hinton .

“ The concept is to have a one stop shop , ” sound out Hinton . “ To have all the software in one place . or else of marketing private products , package publishers can just post their drug user to us , and they can go to browse . ”