Milestone: Apple Mac App Store Passes 100 Million Downloads
By Karla Robinson
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
- The Mac App Store is now the “largest and fastest-growing PC software store in the world,” according to Apple. About a year after its opening, the Mac App Store has passed the 100 million downloads milestone.
- Even so, the Mac App Store has not had the rapid success of the iOS App Store which reached 1 billion downloads only nine months after its debut. The iOS App Store has over 500,000 apps and more than 18 billion app downloads, about a billion a month (Google’s Android Market just hit the 10 billion download mark).
- The Mac App Store only has about 8,459 apps but is “still a huge success,” GigaOM reports. “[It] will likely continue to grow as it ships on future Macs and increasingly becomes a go-to resource for customers looking to get new apps on their machines. Apple’s ability to attract top-tier developers away from direct Web distribution models will also be a key factor in helping it expand its library.”
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