Apple’s latest revolution to launch Jan. 6
Let the speculation end — the Mac App Store will open for business on the first Thursday of 2011. Set to be available in 90 countries from day one, the mothership is rewriting the rules and changing the economics of software distribution in ways that will be felt well beyond the fairer platform.
Apple has announced that Mac App Store will launch on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, ending speculation over when the groundbreaking service would go live. Based on the company’s game changing iPhone, iPod touch and iPad App Store, the service will offer free and paid software, though demos and beta apps won’t be available.
“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”
The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will offer apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities. Developers can set their own prices, keeping 70 percent of the revenue without incurring charges for hosting, marketing or credit card fees.
Everyone and their brothers will be copying the Mac App Store and they’ll likely fail — Google to a degree aside — as miserably as their attempts to emulate the iPhone App Store did.
Will the Mac App Store be good thing?
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December 18th, 2010
I’m looking forward to the Mac App Store, though I’m disappointed that the in-game purchases feature will not make it. This is key for game developers.