There are since the start a hundred million apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. That Apple has announced. This is the Mac App Store is still smaller than the iOS App Store; there, every three days one hundred million apps downloaded.
Apple opened the doors of its Mac App Store in early January, and in almost a years time, the number of one hundred million downloads reached, claims Apple. This are probably the millions of downloads of Mac OS X Lion, the update for the operating system only via the Mac App Store was available. The number of applications for Mac OS X in the Mac App Store is Apple’s ‘thousands’. The Mac App Store-software is standard on new Mac products.
The figures are in stark contrast to the already much longer existing App Store for iOS, where Apple first experimented with a central place to find apps to pay for updates. From the iOS App Store be a billion apps per month downloaded 18 billion apps downloaded since the launch in July 2008. The number of apps in the iOS App Store is now on half a million. This is the App Store is still larger than the Android Market, in which about 350,000 apps.
