“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”
The Mac App Store offers apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard users through Software Update as part of Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Mac developers set the price for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit developer.apple.com/programs/mac.
Source: Apple Inc.
Can’t wait to get back to my Mac , the app store will be great , I’ve spent to much time on my iPad , great idea apple!!!!!!
yea but how many were paid apps?
Steve should really be used to this sort of thing by now; for him, amazed is the new normal…
@ fred – all three of the apps I downloaded were paid apps – Chopper2, Pixelmator, and RapidWeaver. I had been wanting to try Pixelmator and RapidWeaver for a while, and especially given the discounts, I was happy to purchase them. I like the fact that I can use my iTunes account for purchases – now I just wish we could use the same account in the Apple Store for hard goods.
And for the record, I used Pixelmator to edit two photo’s yesterday for work, and I have to say I was very impressed. Much cleaner and easier than Photoshop.
And so Apple reinvents the software industry and it’s distribution model.
Think Different.
Picked up Pixelmater and some Angry Birds, oh, also iPhoto ’11.
The Mac App Store is fantastic. Got 2 paid and 5 free apps yesterday. Traditional retailers should be very scared…
Mac App Store, the first Mac OS X ‘Lion’ killer feature.
Your move MSFT and GOOG.
I bought Aperture 3 at £45 that was a bargain too good to miss. It’s great to purchase iLife and iWork apps individually too.
There are a lot of whingers complaining Apple takes 30%, well, that’s a lot less than a lot of agencies and distributors.
Steve516:
“now I just wish we could use the same account in the Apple Store for hard goods.”
Your should be able to…
Your Apple ID ( the one you use to order fromApple online) can be used to purchase from the App store….
I was really glad to see that I could buy just Pages for $20 and not have to pay $80 and get the other things I didn’t want anyway.
Put me down for 4 of the million
Microsoft should be announcing their own Windows App Store in 5…4…3…2………..
I’m sure they’ll have to blatantly copy the Mac App Store just as they copied the Apple retail stores. I’m sure they’ll have such a feature in Windows 8. Microsoft is really falling behind and I hope the corporations and small businesses take note of that.
This is a countdown to closing for retailers of software!!!
My new Snow Leopard imac froze with all the updates this morning !
Given the transformation we have seen in sales and marketing in 10-15 years, one has to wonder whether there will be any digital product sales at physical stores by 2015 or so, unless they are accompanied by purchase of a piece of hardware.
The App store is great – i didn’t realize half of this stuff existed on the mac and I have been a user since the 80’s – this will be great for all the people new to the mac and they will see how much software there really is..
Whatever:
Your feedback proves precisely how Apple’s App Store Reinvents the Mac Software market and increases the exposure of it’s products, thus increasing mindshare and awareness beyond conventional channels.
Brilliant.
@Whatever
Wait, you didn’t know there were a 1000 free and paid apps for the Mac. And you’ve been a Mac user since the ’80’s? Brilliant.
“There are a lot of whingers complaining Apple takes 30%, well, that’s a lot less than a lot of agencies and distributors.”
Indeed. My father owned a retail store (mostly goods for children) and the wholesale cost was typically 60% of suggested retail. Out of the 40% gross profit he paid for rent and fixtures, employees, lights, and the other costs of running the shop. Apple’s 30% isn’t all gravy either, as he has to pay for the facilities, the servers, the power, and the people that run everything, not to mention the overhead of hosting the free apps for which Apple gets nothing.
@GoogledinTO
I knew they were there and more just was not easy to find them – that is what makes the store great..
Hopefully this puts to rest once and for all the myth that Macs just don’t have much software available for them.
And I won’t shed a tear for the death of boxed software sales. Almost none of those places ever carried Mac software to begin with.
——RM
Very cool. Apple now has a way to leverage all the smart iOS developers for the Mac platform.
That, combined with the huge growth we’ve seen in Mac hardware sales will seriously move developer’s attention and innovation to Apple’s world.
ARM-based Mac servers are next.
Does anyone really believe that Steve Jobs was “amazed” at the response? He probably would have been pissed if they didn’t hit the million downloads mark the first day.
I’m pathetic..lol…picked up Angry Birds for the 3rd time (have the iPhone and HD versions already)
One thing not cool is some developers expecting those who recently bought their app to cough up again to get the updated app on the MAS; Pixelmator and Garagesale come to mind…