For those times we don't want to purchase something immediately--maybe we want to mull it over, or maybe we want to before purchasing--how about a wish list for your account in the Mac App Store? Apple's other online stores each provide one, so why not give the newest store the same feature? It would be a great way to help users keep track of apps they might want to purchase among the ever-increasing flood of Mac App Store entries.

The iTunes Store lets you give someone else a music track, an album, a movie, or a TV episode. The iOS App Store lets you gift an app, too. But the Mac App Store is missing this popular feature. Here's hoping the Mac App Store is just late to the party, and we'll soon be able to give our non-iPhone-using family members their first copy of the OS X version of Angry Birds.

As with the iOS App Store, Apple doesn't allow trial or evaluation versions of software--free, feature- or time-limited versions that can be upgraded to the full versions by paying. Instead, Apple recommends that developers offer trial versions through their own Websites. We can understand Apple not allowing beta and other pre-release versions of applications, which are commonly available outside the Mac App Store. But having to go to a developer's Website and manually download and install a trial version just to see if you'd like to purchase the program seems to defeat much of the purpose of having the Mac App Store in the first place.