SYDNEY, Australia – 13 December 2011 – Apple\u00ae today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac\u00ae App Store\u2122 in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes\u00ae account, and download and install them in just one step. Apple revolutionised the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,\u201d said Philip Schiller, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. \u201cWith more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Autodesk products in both the App Store and Mac App Store, we can reach hundreds of millions of Apple users around the world,\u201d said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president of Platform Solutions and Emerging Business at Autodesk. \u201cWith our free AutoCAD WS and the more powerful professional drafting tools of AutoCAD LT, we\u2019re using the Mac App Store to deliver new products and reach a growing base of new Mac customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mac App Store has unparalleled reach and has completely transformed our distribution and development cycle,\u201d said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. \u201cOffering Pixelmator 2.0 exclusively on the Mac App Store allows us to streamline updates to our image editing software and stay ahead of the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn less than one year we\u2019ve shifted the distribution of djay for Mac exclusively to the Mac App Store,\u201d said Karim Morsy, CEO of algoriddim. \u201cWith just a few clicks, djay for Mac is available to customers in 123 countries worldwide. We could never have that reach through traditional channels.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mac App Store offers thousands of apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what\u2019s hot, see staff favourites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is included with Mac OS\u00ae X Lion and is available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard\u00ae. For more information visit, www.apple.com\/au\/mac\/app-store.<\/p>\n
Mac developers set the prices 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.<\/p>\n
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SYDNEY, Australia – 13 December 2011 – Apple\u00ae today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac\u00ae App Store\u2122 in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy<\/p>\n