*Apple ogłosiło dzisiaj, że aplikacje dostępne w Mac App Store zostały pobrane już 100 milionów razy - informacja ta jest tym bardziej imponująca, że sklep ten jest czynny od niespełna jednego roku.
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Mac App Store to internetowy sklep z aplikacjami dla komputerów Mac, uruchomiony 6 stycznia bieżącego roku. Już w czasie pierwszych 24 godzin od otwarcia liczba pobrań osiągnęła poziom jednego miliona. Dzisiaj osiągnięto kolejny kamień milowy - 100 milionów pobrań. Philip Schiller, zajmujący się w Apple światowym marketingiem produktów, tak skomentował dzisiejszą informację:

„W czasie zaledwie trzech lat sklep App Store zmienił sposób, w jaki ludzie pozyskują mobilne aplikacje, a teraz Mac App Store zmienia tradycyjny komputerowy rynek oprogramowania. Za sprawą 100 milionów pobrań w przeciągu niespełna roku, Mac App Store jest największym i najszybciej rozwijającym się sklepem z oprogramowaniem komputerowym na świecie.”

W informacji prasowej firmy Apple możemy także przeczytać wypowiedzi przedstawicieli kilku znaczących deweloperów, udostępniających swoje produkty za pomocą Mac App Store. Ponadto, dowiadujemy się, że liczba aplikacji w App Store (iOS) przekroczyła barierę pół miliona pozycji, zaś każdego miesiąca liczba pobrań przekracza jeden miliard.

Źródło: Apple

Pełna informacja prasowa:
[SPOILER]Apple's Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million

CUPERTINO, California-December 12, 2011-Apple today announced that over 100
million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store 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 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.

"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."

"With Autodesk products in both the App Store and Mac App Store, we can
reach hundreds of millions of Apple users around the world," said Amar
Hanspal, senior vice president of Platform Solutions and Emerging Business
at Autodesk. "With our free AutoCAD WS and the more powerful professional
drafting tools of AutoCAD LT, we're using the Mac App Store to deliver new
products and reach a growing base of new Mac customers."

"The Mac App Store has unparalleled reach and has completely transformed
our distribution and development cycle," said Saulius Dailide of the
Pixelmator Team. "Offering 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."

"In less than one year we've shifted the distribution of djay for Mac
exclusively to the Mac App Store," said 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."

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's 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 X Lion
and is available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow
Leopard. For more information visit, www.apple.com/mac/app-store/
.

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
.

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.[/SPOILER]