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 is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
