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TidBITS#1021/01-Apr-2010

As Apple fans wait for Saturday’s release of the iPad, we have a variety of articles to help you pass the time. Adam examines rumors of Apple’s plan to resolve App Store criticisms by allowing franchisees to run stores with different acceptance criteria, and – more interestingly – how Apple will start selling Mac applications in the App Store. He also reports on the return of the popular email client Eudora, not to the Mac, but to the iPad, and ponders just what Apple could do with its $40 billion in cash. In other news, Rich Mogull runs down Apple’s answer to critics who consider the iPad just a big iPod touch and Jeff Carlson examines a new MobileMe service aimed at increasing the security of iPhone OS device passcodes.

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Apple Plans App Store Shakeup with Franchises, Mac Applications

In response to the negative press surrounding app rejections and removals, sources indicate that Apple will soon start franchising the App Store, enabling anyone who meets Apple's criteria to run their own version of the popular virtual marketplace. In related news, Apple's App Store will also start carrying Mac applications.

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Eudora Returns… on the iPad

If you've resisted giving up Eudora on your Mac, you'll be pleased to learn that although there hasn't been a new release for the Mac for some years, the program will be making the leap to the iPad, a platform that is in some ways more like the Macs upon which Eudora was originally designed in 1988.