Apples Mac App Store Passes 100 Million Downloads

Consumers appear to be thrilled with the ease of buying computer software through a store integrated into the operating system.

Inside Apples New Grand Central Super Store (click image for larger view and for slideshow)
Mac users have downloaded over 100 million apps from Apples Mac App Store, an event that the company suggests is transforming the computer software industry.
Apple SVP Phillip Schiller said in a statement that just as the iOS App Store changed how people obtained mobile apps, the Mac App Store is
changing the traditional PC software industry.
Schiller claims the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing software store in the world, though its not clear how he is defining software store.
And such definitions are important if meaningful comparisons are to be made. The iOS App Store, Apples software store for mobile devices, saw 1.5 billion downloads of iOS apps during its first year. Google announced last week that its Android Market had dispensed 10 billion downloads--a milestone reached by Apples iOS App Store in January--and Android Markets download rate is growing by 1 billion apps per month. So the Mac App Stores success is impressive but is also taking place in the shadow of much more significant interest in mobile software.
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Apple introduced the Mac App Store in January and reported 1 million downloads the first day of operation. Apples decision to sell Mac software through a store built into its operating system was initially greeted with wariness by Mac OS developers, many of whom were concerned with the more restrictive terms imposed by Apple on third-party software in its Mac App Store. (Apple still allows developers to distribute Mac OS software themselves without having to adhere to Mac App Store rules.)
In October, 2010, Paul Kafasis, CEO of Mac audio software company Rogue Amoeba, expressed ambivalence about Apples terms. He said that Apples 30% revenue share wasnt particularly reasonable, given that most developers pay 3% to 10% in credit card and processing fees, but allowed that having instant access to 50 million Mac users might make up for it.
At the time, he characterized Apples restrictions on API usage as onerous. Apples restrictions, for example, prevent Rogue Amoebas audio recording application, Audio Hijack Pro, from being approved for sale in the Mac App Store.
Rogue Amoeba spent almost a year working within Apples guidelines on a similar audio recording application called
Piezo
that has just been released, directly through the companys website and through the Mac App Store.
But because Piezo plays by Apples rules,
it cant do a few things that Audio Hijack Pro can
, like record from active applications without relaunching them or capturing all audio from ones Mac at once.
And Apples restrictions will soon become more limiting: Starting in March, 2012, Apple plans to require that apps sold in the Mac App Store
operate in a sandbox
that limits the system resources available to programs. The company maintains that sandboxing will curtail potential harm from malicious code.
Even so, money speaks louder than freedom to most developers, many of whom report that
Mac App Store distribution has improved sales
.
Software buyers are certainly benefiting from Apples oversight. The company is now selling its pro apps like Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro through the Mac App Store for hundreds of dollars less than previous boxed versions of the software. What remains to be seen is the extent to which major software companies like Adobe and Microsoft are willing to hand over a third of their revenue for a place in the Mac App Store.
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