Earlier today Apple released download figures for the Mac App Store. The numbers were impressive to say the least, but they are even more impressive than we thought.
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Apple’s Mac App Store tops 100 million downloads
Apple today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step. Apple revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.
Wow!
∞ Sandboxing Mac apps
Arnold Kim at Mac Rumors:
Developers of these sandboxed applications must take special measures to break up their application into individual processes that only are able to do exactly what they need. Apple still allows user initiated actions to perform as expected and override the sandbox, but app-initiated actions in sandboxed applications will be restricted. This means that system wide file access and inter-app scripting and interactions will not be allowed.
Arnold has a great piece about Apple’s plans to sandbox apps. While it was supposed to happen this month, Apple put it off until 2012. It’s definitely worth a read.
∞ Appalicious works as shopping assistant to Mac App Store
ProVUE Development has released Appalicious, a new shopping assistant for the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store is a great new service from Apple that exposes users to lots of Mac application software, but it can be a bit … Continued
∞ Apple confirms Mac OS X Lion will be released Wednesday
During its third quarter earnings conference call with analysts and press on Tuesday, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that Mac OS X Lion would be released to the Mac App Store tomorrow. Lion will only be available as a digital … Continued
∞ Windows App Store screenshots leaked
It’s hard to keep secrets these days. The design of Microsoft’s new Windows App Store is the latest project to be leaked on the Web.
TechCrunch posted supposed screenshots of the company’s Windows App Store that leaked onto the Web. The screenshots are not verified, but if they are real, it certainly shows some more copying of Apple.
It may also explain why Microsoft is fighting Apple so hard to make sure the term “App Store” remains generic.
∞ Mac App Store makes developers money
As if on cue with our previous article, PCWorld.com, (by way of Macworld.com), discusses a report that shows strong sales of Mac apps sold through the new Mac App Store. “Despite the small number of available titles, the average Mac … Continued
∞ Microsoft considers Office on Mac App Store
Microsoft on Thursday said it hasn’t ruled out bringing Office to Apple’s newly released Mac App Store.
∞ Pixelmator makes $1 million in 20 days on Mac App Store
It is so nice seeing good things happen to good people. In this case, brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide found success on the Mac App Store.
∞ Mac App Store transition not easy for all devs
Many developers jumped into the Mac App Store with both feet and are loving it. However, it hasn’t been an easy ride for all developers. Sophia Teutschler of Sophiestication Software makes several apps, including the popular CoverSutra. I must say … Continued
∞ Mac apps peak in the $20-$50 range on Mac App Store
You may have thought that free apps or even those that are under $5 would be the most popular category among developers, but not in the Mac App Store.
∞ Fixing the 'error 100' message in the Mac App Store
Apple released the Mac App Store on Thursday as part of Mac OS X 10.6.6. If you’ve been getting “error 100,” here’s how to fix it.
∞ Mac App Store, Mac OS X 10.6.6 arrive
Apple on Thursday released Mac OS X 10.6.6, which includes the Mac App Store.
∞ Do CES vendors fear Apple?
The Consumer Electronics Show doesn’t officially start until tomorrow, but there’s been a slew of announcements from the show already. Could it be that many vendors at CES are afraid Apple will steal all of the press tomorrow when it … Continued
∞ Mac App Store will launch at 12:00 pm ET on Thursday
The Mac App Store will officially launch on January 6, but nobody has been able to nail down a time when the service will be publicly available.
∞ Bodega App Store expects to thrive with launch of Mac App Store
Bodega, an application that allows developers to sell their products through its storefront, launched in 2009 and sees great things in the future, even with the launch of the Mac App Store coming this week.
∞ New Mac app Ensoul coming with launch of Mac App Store
When Apple launches the Mac App Store on January 6, Mac software developer MacPaw plans to release a brand new app called Ensoul.
∞ Mac App Store launching January 6
Apple today ended weeks of speculation announcing its Mac App Store would officially launch on January 6, 2011.
∞ Mac App Store launching in January 2011
Despite published reports to the contrary, Apple’s Mac App Store will launch in January 2011.
∞ Apple begins accepting apps for the Mac App Store
Apple on Wednesday told developers that they could start submitting their applications for inclusion in the Mac App Store.