Apple has announced that its Mac App Store shipped its 100 millionth download recently, less than a year after launch. The store launched at the beginning of 2011 and is installed as part of OS X Lion.
‘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.’
Developers also praised the store. Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator team said that the store had ‘completely transformed’ its distribution and development cycle. ‘“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,’ said Daiide.
Karim Morsy, DEO of algoriddim also praised the Store: ‘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,’ he said.
Not all developers are as happy with the App Store. One of the conditions of using it is that developers have to comply with Apple’s requirement that apps are sandboxed by March 2012. This is supposed to make OS X Lion more secure but some developers say that one of the consequences of sandboxing, limited access to the file system, means that, were they to implement it, their apps would not work as intended.
