While many pundits may have scoffed at the idea of a Mac App Store when it was first announced, the people have spoken — with their wallets! On Monday, Apple revealed that the Mac App Store has now soared past the 100 million downloads milestone, less than a year after it was launched.
Apple has announced that the Mac App Store has officially served up more than 100 million downloads in less than a year. The company isn’t saying exactly how many Mac apps it offers as of today, but the iOS App Store now has more than half a million titles that have collectively been downloaded 18 billion times and continue to be downloaded at a rate of a billion apps per month.
“In 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,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With 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.”
Among the Mac developers touting their success on the Mac App Store are Autodesk, Pixelmator and algoriddim, the creators of the popular djay, which first debuted on the iPad and is now available across all of Apple’s devices.
“In less than one year we’ve shifted the distribution of djay for Mac exclusively to the Mac App Store,” explains Karim Morsy, CEO of algoriddim. “With just a few clicks, djay for Mac is available to customers in 123 countries worldwide. We could never have that reach through traditional channels.”
Late last week, Apple introduced Logic Pro 9 to the Mac App Store, killing off the boxed retail copies of its popular pro music creation application. The move marked the last of Apple’s own software to become available only in the Mac App Store, although the virtual marketplace is still missing many third-party heavy hitters from Adobe, Microsoft and others. But with customers grabbing up so many Mac apps there, it’s probably just a matter of time before the tide turns in Cupertino’s direction yet again.
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Every one of this week’s price drop apps are either gorgeous in and of themselves or help you see the gorgeous world around you. Whether you roll with the robot shoot ‘em ups or are dazzled by the heavenly bodies in the universe, there’s something for you and all you in between.
Sketchbook Pro for iPad‘s only on sale for the weekend, so don’t wait around. Go nab this beauty while it’s down from .99 to just .99. Developer Autodesk Inc. has created something beloved by professionals, a paint and drawing application for the iPad that uses the same engine as the desktop version. Large size canvas, multiple layers, more than 60 present brushes with others available as in-app purchase — this one’s got it all.
All out robot war! A post-apocalyptic first person shooter, EPOCH from Uppercut Games Pty Ltd sees its tag drop from .99 to .99 for a limited time. Using the same graphics engine used to create Infinity Blade, you’ll try to solve the mystery of what happened when the old world order ended and find and save the one person you were created to to protect.
Keep watching the stars! Even though we’re entering the wintry period when much of the night sky is shrouded in gray clouds, you can keep up with celestial events with Southern Stars’ drop dead gorgeous SkySafari 3, for the low, low price of free. Called “revolutionary” by Sky & Telescope magazine and MacWorld 2010′s Best of Show Winner, SkySafari shows you what you’d see in the sky if you weren’t under a snowy haze, and this sale lasts until December 12th, so don’t delay.
Apple’s new Cards app is going to have to step up its game as other players get into the field of turning iOS snaps into real print cards and postcards. Enter Frametastic. Pick your frame styles, populate it with pics from your camera roll, and you’re set. Not a fan of print? No problem, just share it wherever you roll socially. And since it’s currently free, we dont’ see any reason not to start making cards for the holidays.
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