Steve Jobs announces an App Store for the Mac
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Not surprisingly it was a slow news day yesterday for anything related to Apple that wasn’t the ‘Back to the Mac’ event. Therefore I figured I would post about the only (somewhat) developer related news from those announcements.
Many people have predicted it but Apple has finally made an official announcement it is going to create an App Store for the Mac. This really shouldn’t be that big of a shock to anyone considering Apple’s success with the iPhone App Store. It was announced on Wednesday that a total of 7 billion apps have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store since the store launched in 2007.
Thankfully Apple isn’t going to restrict developers from selling Mac desktop software in places other than the Mac App Store. The company plans to use a similar format to iTunes but the applications will be completely separate. You will be able to get updates via the Mac App Store as well. As with the iPhone app store developers will get 70% of sales with Apple getting the rest.
The Mac App Store is planned to open in the next 90 days.
