“Apple has served over 100 million downloads from its Mac App Store in just 340 days, or approximately 204 Mac apps every minute of the day, making Apple the world’s biggest Mac software retailer,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld.
“The store has grown fast. Apple opened for business offering 1,000 applications, now it hosts 10,000 apps,” Evans reports. “The Mac App Store is included with Mac OS X Lion and is available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.”
Evans reports, “As the Mac platform evolves into a post-PC computing solution, the strategic importance of the App Stores for Apple’s mobile platforms will become ever more important, particularly as the UI teams work to ensure parity in usage between both Mac and iOS platforms in future — a parity Microsoft is also promising to match.”
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“As the Mac platform evolves into a post-PC computing solution, the strategic importance of the App Stores for Apple’s mobile platforms will become ever more important, particularly as the UI teams work to ensure parity in usage between both Mac and iOS platforms in future — a parity Microsoft is also promising to match.”……… um well ok… my suggestion to MSFT is to get a grip on their Windoze versions first. How many flavors of Windoze do we now have today? Yeah.
Nice gobbledegook sentence there, Evans, but you’re confusing the platforms and App Stores. The Mac is and always will be a PC computing solution, because it will handle the heavy lifting computing we all need to do. The Mac “evolving” into a “post-PC computing solution” really has nothing to do with the importance of the App Store for Apple’s mobile solutions; Apple just needs to keep OS X and iOS working well together (and merging even more features and abilities to share data), and continue adding features which are genuinely useful and not features just to say we added features, a la Windows.
Mac App Store is pretty slick. One-stop shopping at its finest. Makes getting Mac apps so simple for non-tech consumers and you’ll always know when updates are ready to download. Sweet.
You mean “Microsoft is promising to COPY”
The Mac is and always will be a PC computing solution..
Until Apple ships an iPad with OS X on it.
“a parity Microsoft is also promising to match…”
Microsoft is always promising things. They never deliver.