Apple Mac Store breaks the 100 million download barrier

At just below a year old, Apple’s Mac App Store is celebrating a reasonably significant milestone, hitting the 100 million download mark, a fact the corporate celebrated with a customarily self-congratulatory press release. The desktop store hit the scene in January of this year , just before CES — as we speak, it’s home to “thousands” of apps, in step with Apple. Granted, these numbers pale compared to the some 18 billion app downloads for Apple’s other App Store, but still, not bad for a year’s work. Press release after the break.

Apple’s Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million

CUPERTINO, California-December 12, 2011-Apple® today announced that over 100 million apps were downloaded from the Mac® App Store™ in lower than 12 months. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so that you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, and download and install them in only one step. Apple revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has greater than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded greater than 18 billion apps and continue to download greater than 1 billion apps per 30 days.

“In only three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the ancient PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vp of world Marketing. “With greater than 100 million downloads in under a year, the Mac App Store is the biggest and fastest growing PC software store on the planet.”

“With Autodesk products in both the App Store and Mac App Store, we will be able to reach hundreds of millions of Apple users all over the world,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice chairman 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 latest 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 at the Mac App Store allows us to streamline updates to our image editing software and stay earlier than the contest.”

“In below three hundred and sixty five days we’ve shifted the distribution of djay for Mac exclusively to the Mac App Store,” said Karim Morsy, CEO of algoriddim. “With only a few clicks, djay for Mac is obtainable to customers in 123 countries worldwide. Lets never have that extend 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 memorable apps, discover what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and lookup top charts for paid and free apps, in addition user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is included with Mac OS® X Lion and is on the market as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard®. For additional info visit, www.apple.com/mac/app-store.

Mac developers set the costs for his or her apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, aren’t charged free of charge apps and don’t must pay hosting, marketing or bank card fees. To determine more about developing for the Mac App Store visit, developer.apple.com/programs/mac.

Apple designs Macs, the easiest personal computers on this planet, at the side of OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the cellphone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 that is defining the way forward for mobile media and computing devices.