Apple Announces Over 1 Million Downloads In Mac App Store After Day 1
Apple have just announced that users have downloaded over 1 million apps from the Mac App Store since its launch yesterday. Steve Jobs was/is understandably delighted and said "we’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting, the developers have done a great job bring apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is". That’s certainly true for us too, the Mac App Store is really a delight to navigate, especially as many users are, used to the iTunes store.
21 Genre of App
There are 21 genre of app in the Mac App Store, these include Business, Developer Tools, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Games, Graphics and Design, Health and Fitness, Lifestyle, Medical, Music, News, Photography, Productivity, Reference, Social Networking, Sports, Travel, Utilities, Video and Weather.
The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard users through the Software Update as part of Mac OS X 10.6.6.
70% Sales Revenue
Mac developers keep 70% of the sales revenue, after setting their own prices for the apps. Mac developers are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees.
If you’re interested in finding out more about becoming a Mac App Store developer – click here
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
