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Tired of hearing your parent, significant other, or spouse hounding on your for spending too much money in the App Store? Well lucky for you, Apple is holding another app download-based contest in which the best app aficionados can score a $10,000 iTunes gift card, according to the Cupertino-based website. This time, all you have to do is be the person who downloads Apple’s 10 billionth app (or, if you don’t want to purchase/download anything, point your browser here and fill out the form). No matter how you slice it, $10,000 grand is a massive amount of money for Apple’s App Store. How could possibly say no?
Today, January 7th via press release, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the freshly launched Mac App Store for OS X has already surpassed 1 million downloads in a mere 24 hours after going live. While it may pale in comparison to other sales figures such as billions downloaded by the iOS App Store, we must remember that the iOS App Store has been around for almost 3 years now.
For Apple, breaking 1 million downloads on launch day is a positive signal that the desktop app store will enjoy a healthy amount of success, even if sales slow down after the initial wave of early adopters.
In closing, Steve Jobs expressed his delight with Mac App Store sales figures, saying: “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting. Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is”.
Have you tried out the new Mac App Store yet?
- December 23, 2010 10:05 pm
At one point in time, we’ve all come into possession of a particular file that we didn’t have an appropriate piece of software to open said file. On that same note, Windows users have been able to simply click “search online” to give Windows a chance at clearing things up. I’ve never had particularly good luck with the in-house app searching within Windows, ultimately turning to Google to find the required app. Perhaps on OS X it will be better, as according to a Mac developer from MacGeneration testing out the latest 10J537 build of 10.6.6, it appears that Apple will now add the same feature. The only difference in this case is that OS X will search the Mac App Store instead of the entire web, potentially resulting in a much better result, and at the very least, much faster searches.
- December 20, 2010 9:34 pm
Apple isn’t generally the company you see exhibit overlapping qualities. Each product and service has a distinct purpose. This point could of course be argued for the rest of eternity, but for the sake of time and this article, we’ll assume Apple’s products are always unique. With that said, Apple announced tonight in an email sent to OS X developers that the Apple.com/downloads/osx web page will soon be no more. On the same day that the Mac App Store is set to go live — January 6th — the aforementioned link will go dark.
It’s really not all that surprising. If we take the previous statement about overlapping, Apple, and distinct to heart, we’d quickly come to the conclusion that Apple would never intend to have two store fronts open catering to the exact same market with the exact same product.
Still, it’s sad to see it go. As you wipe away the tears filled with memories of years past, hop inside and check out the official email from Apple themselves…
- December 11, 2010 8:24 pm
Cydia creator and iOS jailbreaking master Jay “Saurik” Freeman, announced this morning at the 360|MacDev conference a Cydia Store just for Mac. While the OS X desktop OS is a completely tweakable OS (unlike iOS), Apple’s many restrictions (such as in-app purchases) are actually quite developer unfriendly and restricting. Naturally, the king of Cydia wants to extend the open source iOS app store’s success to the desktop.
“Mac Cydia” as it’s currently being called was said to be coming “within weeks”. A pre-Christmas release would do wonders for sales, though such a deadline is seemingly lofty given the timetable at hand. However, the larger and more important thing is that people like Saurik are giving people options, options that Apple is neglecting to offer.
Given that the dynamics between the two platforms are fairly distinct and unique, do you think a Mac Cydia store will be as successful as the current iOS version?
- November 21, 2010 1:59 pm
iOS users and AR Drone owners have a new toy coming to them by the end of the month — a new augmented reality game that uses the AR Drone’s onboard camera and a little high tech magic to transform the very concept of what we consider a “game”. While AR is nothing new, the way in which it is employed in “A.R. Pursuit” is nothing short of awesome. Using the AR Drone’s onboard cameras, you and another player navigate the air around you battling it out with augmented machine guns and missiles — one person the chaser, and the other the chasee.
At only $2.99, the app is a must buy for anyone already owning an AR Drone. But if you’re still not convinced, hop inside and give the press release and video a try…
- November 13, 2010 7:52 pm
Open for business!! The new Apple Store in University Park Mall. Come on by.
- November 12, 2010 2:36 pm
Some good news and bad news. First, the good — Swype is now available for the Nokia N8 smartphone. The bad — it’s still landscape only. Granted, this is more of a Symbian OS shortcoming and not in any way Swype’s fault. Though Nokia users should still find the updated keyboard leaps and bounds better than the stock software keyboard, which is arguably nothing but garbage.
Special care needs to be taken if you’ve been running the Nokia C7 specific build of Swype on your N8 as you’ll need to completely — Completely! — remove it from your phone before installing the N8 version. If you don’t, all kinds of bad things will happen, kittens will die, and trees will whither. Ok, maybe not that extreme. But you get the picture — it could get nasty.
Swype for the Nokia N8 is now live in the Ovi App Store free of charge. Let us know how it goes.
- November 12, 2010 12:49 am
The next time you walk into a GameStop store, double check and make sure it’s not being robbed at that particular point in time. Unfortunately for one Mr. Adrian Tyrone Snow, he picked the worst of times to go game shopping. As he walked through the door, the two armed robbers whom already tied up the store employees proceeded to tie up Mr. Snow, whom went on to resist the robbers’ advances. Sadly, the robbers shot Mr. Snow twice. He later died at the hospital from his wounds.
The pair of suspects — Giovannte Maddox and Demarkus Williams — are believed to be the same suspects that robbed several other surrounding GameStop stores in recent days. Unfortunately for Mr. Snow, the local law enforcement didn’t catch them soon enough.
Now is a good time to remind everyone that if you’re feeling violent, put the game down, take a walk, take a nap — something.
