Apple today released Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. It also includes the Mac App Store, the best way to discover and buy new apps for your Mac. The Mac App Store, a new application you’ll find in the Dock, includes the following features:
• Discover Mac apps: Browse featured apps, top charts, and categories, or search for something specific. Read detailed app descriptions and user reviews, and flip through screen shots.
• Buy and install: Easily purchase apps with your iTunes account. Apps install in one step and are quickly available from the Dock.
• App updates: The Mac App Store keeps track of all your purchased apps and notifies you when free updates are available.
To learn more about the Mac App Store, visit: http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4459.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
UPDATE: 10:09am ET: Apple now has the standalone installers available here.
Revised title suggestion: Apple adds more snow to avalanche.
Shows already installed software, sweet.
I have a feeling that this Mac App store is what the North Carolina datacenter was intended to be used for all along!
Love to see an uninstall function native to the OS!
@jax44
doesnt work 100% yet…
and well: Where is iWork’11?
Apple Aperture (boxed) sells for $199
On App Store, same version sells for $79.99
Wonderful purchase!
Can’t login as window is stuck behind main app window and can’t select text boxes. Needs an update before I can actually use.
What is this all about ? How do an older OS verion access the apps?
Apple Pls provide a faq
Mac OS 10.6.6 required
App Store application is in 10.6.6
Sweet, can’t wait to try it out when I get home from work (still running 10.5.8 on my work iMac).
Hey MDN, why don’t you report on how a huge amount of people are experiencing errors when trying to connect with the new Apps Store?
@jax44,
It shows my Apple software, like iLife and iWork. But it doesn’t know that I already have a registered install of Pixelmator.
Does it fix the wireless connectivity issues in Snow Leopard?
Combo is 1gig! Awesome….
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@Kurien
Somethings just don’t work well going backward.
Apple usually tries to be courteous of older systems but I don’t think you can always move forward while looking backward too much or Apple will end up like Microsloth.
Microsloth fears change because they want EVERYBODY’s old business stuff to work forever. So they cater to the the lowest common denominator, which equals no progress.
iWeb was not updated with iLife 11 and not available at all on the App Store…
Perhaps iWeb is discontinued.
I love Apple products, but iWeb is a huge disappointment. However, its demise would be an even bigger disappointment. If Apple doesn’t make a truly intuitive, low-cost web-publishing app, who will?
10.6.6 broke my esata card driver for external RAID drives.
🙁
@alansky:
RapidWeaver (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/overview/)
Sandvox (http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/)
With the Facebook integration in iPhoto, I’m guessing Apple is under the impression that most iLife users aren’t creating personal webpages anymore (and they’re probably right). Most people are sharing media through social networking, not through maintaining their own static websites.
It’s true. Nobody builds their own personal websites from the ground up anymore.
Those who aren’t centralizing their life on a Facebook page are using powerful, free content management systems like WordPress. Why write your own CSS/HTML when they’ve already got nice, customizable, cross-browser tested layouts ready for you with advanced widgets you simply drop in? Just add content.
But…is it snappier?
@ Steve:
in other words, why take the effort to be unique and innovative? Just use the same canned crap that everyone else does … and let someone else take your data. That’s Facebook for you.
It shows installed apps but I get an error message when I try to download a new app!!!!