Apple on Mondayannouncedthat customers have downloaded apps from the Mac App Store more than 100 million time .
The Mac App Store opened for business just eleven months ago with more than 1000 apps , inspired by the tremendous achiever of the iOS App Store that preceded it . That first App Store now boasts more than half a million apps ; Apple is less specific on the sizing of the Mac App Store , enunciate only that it extend “ thousands of free and paid apps . ” The dividing line between the stores ’ volume is exonerated — the iOS App Store attain 1.5billiondownloads in its first year .
Based on the 100 million downloads , Apple claims that the Mac App Store has become the world ’s large and fast growing personal computer software store . In its press liberation announcing the milestone , Apple includes Mac App Store extolment from developer likeAutodesk , Pixelmator , andalgoriddim .
When Apple reports App Store milestones like this one , note that the phone number include only “ first - meter downloads ” ; that is , the 100 million Mac App Store downloads do n’t factor in app updates or re - downloads . Additionally , Macworldcan reassert a news report fromThe Loopthat the 100 million number does n’t let in Lion downloads . ( Apple reported one million Lion downloads on its first day of availability , and claimedsix million total Lion downloadsback in October . )
Late last week , Apple reveal what it considers to bethe best Mac App Store apps of 2011 .
buoy by both the Mac App Store ’s success and its increase focus on security , Apple inform developers to begin with this yr about strict sandboxing requirements coming to the shop in March 2012 ; some developersremain waryabout the coming alteration . One thing ’s sure , though : If the Mac App Store continues to boast such telling download numbers game , it will stay an extremely authoritative part of the Mac software ecosystem .
Updated at noon E.T. to clarify that the 100 million act does n’t include re - downloads , updates , or Lion downloads .
