Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
Summary: 100 million in less than a year.
Today Apple announced that it has seen over 100 million downloads from the Mac App Store.
Apple today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step.
One point to note here is that Apple offered the Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' upgrade exclusively via the Mac App Store initially, so I've no doubt that this will have helped boost the download numbers dramatically.
UPDATE - Apple has confirmed to The Loop that these download numbers do not include Lion downloads.
Apple's not just blowing the trumpet of the Mac App Store either. Here are some headline-grabbing stats related to the iOS App Store:
- More than 500,000 apps
- More than 18 billion apps downloaded
- More than 1 billion apps downloaded per month
These numbers put Google's boast of 10 billion apps downloaded from the Android Market into perspective.
“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”
Looks like Apple is set to shake up another industry.
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Seems a Familiar Method to Me
The truly sad thing about this
Pretty soon, the Apple fanbois will look at any new app store and claim that they are copies of the Apple app store. This is ignoring the facts you laid out in addition to ignoring the app stores that were available for Windows Mobile 6 and the various highly successful app stores like Steam that have been running for years. We saw the same thing with WP7 which was not a copy of the iPhone but instead just another version in the PocketPC / Windows Mobile line.
Apple fanbois have become very good at ignoring all history outside of the Apple RDF.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
You comment about WP7 phones not being copies of the iPhones is absolutely correct. If they were copies, like some Android phones are, than the WP7 sales would be ten times what they are now. Grin
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
They copied Handango, not Apple
"the app stores that were available for Windows Mobile 6"
Note they were available FOR WM6, I never claimed they were run by MS.
Apple's App Store has been successful for the same reason that all of you Apple fanbois claim that Windows is successful: there is no other (easy) choice. Want to get a PC? You are "forced" to buy a Windows PC (if we believe your shrieking). Want to get an App for the iPhone? You are forced (with no quotation marks) to get it from Apple's App Store. People don't choose to use the App Store, they are forced to. And that's fine. Obviously Apple created a great business model by slavishly copying the app stores that existed first. MS is also copying but they aren't copying Apple. This usually gets the anti MS folks riled-up yelling how MS IS copying Apple (waaa!!).
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
Android has over 620000 Apps
Uh Oh! a positive Apple story...
Like clockwork...
Oh, Apple Would Never Imply Such a Thing
"Pretty soon the usual haters will come out and claim that Apple fanboys are about to claim that Apple invented the concept of the App store.
"Like clockwork..."
Of course Apple themselves would never imply such a thing.
"'In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,' said Philip Schiller."
Like clockwork...
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
[i]"'In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,' said Philip Schiller."[/i]
So, do you have a link to where Apple claimed they invented the concept of the App Store or not? This quote refers to to the fact that Apple popularized it. That is what they are known for, yet haters like yourself don't know the difference and bluster in with false accusations.
like clockwork....
The Fact that Apple Popularized It?
Obviously, you don't know me at all, since you seem to think that I am always critical of Apple. However, Apple may have popularized the app store for mobile devices, but they are not responsible for popularizing that concept on PCs, yet they claim that they are responsible for "changing the traditional PC software industry."
Remember that I didn't say Apple stated that they came up with the idea. They merely implied it. That's the mindset of Apple's marketing department. They imply that they came up with all these ideas (without ever actually coming out and saying it), and several years later, a lot of people seem to believe it. Of course, in practice, you can be pretty much assured that any technology that is mainstream is not original, but in at least its second or third generation.
Current Apple products don't have much appeal for me, but I don't hate Apple any more than any other large corporation, which is to say that I don't trust them at all. If Apple came out with a product that appealed to me, I would give it due consideration. Such a product, though, wouldn't fit in with their current approach. It's very much on purpose that the iPad doesn't have a slot for flash memory or USB host capabilities. As long as their products continue along those lines, I'm not interested.
However, Apple brought us Webkit, which is being used to develop a number of interesting browser projects. They also gave us the Darwin operating system, which is an interesting from a geek's perspective. Of course, they eventually killed the binary releases, but the PureDarwin project is still trying to make something of the source code.
Also, back in the day Apple's PowerPC hardware was interesting. I enjoyed using Apple IIe computers oh so long ago. I think it's fair to say that I used to like Apple better than I do now, although I was always more of a fan of Wozniak than Jobs.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
Wait until you see the claims Microsoft is going to have in the number of apps and downloads when they introduce the Windows 8 Windows App Store. They're going to be claiming that they've surpassed Apple's numbers within a short span of a few months because Windows is the most prolific OS on the planet and Microsoft is a far more powerful company than Apple can ever be. I'm sure that Microsoft's Windows App Store will have about a million free apps to start the ball rolling.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
Nice backhanded Apple compliments. But I would answer "yes" to your question, "is Apple shaking up the industry?" (But first one must define which industry is being disrupted.)<br><br>Therefore, my reason for my conjecture is this. Before the online app store model for paid, commercial apps existed, the normal business model for distributing software was thru "brick and motor" retail outlets. With the advent of Apple's successful app stores, the traditional "brick and motor" software outlet business model might be phrased out in time.
Previous Linux distros of this app store concept would never force the closure of mainstream "brick and motor" retail software outlets.
Please retract your statement
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/11/11/retailers-say-steam-is-killing-the-pc-market-threaten-steam-ban/
"encourages gamers to buy through Valve instead of returning to stores"
Brick and mortar software retail outlets are far more worried about Valve than they are about Apple. Valve shook up this industry. Apple is slavishly copying Valve.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
I won't retract my opinion, my Canadian friend. (Noticed I used the word "might" in the statement that you quoted.)
BTW, why did you choose to change your online name to "toddybottom"? I looked up the word "toddy" and discovered that it might refer to "long immersion, room temperature brewing devices that create a coffee syrup which can be later diluted with boiling water." A toddy was also described as a "unique brewing system, not for everyone's tastes."
Well, your comments certainly are "not for everyone's tastes" but I have come to appreciate them. They provide a balance for my comments and keep me honest in my opinions. Thanks and Merry Christmas.
BTW, another reason that I can't retract my statement is that we have already discussed Valve in relationship to the iTunes Business model. Those were classic on line discussions which I remember with a certain amount of nostalgia. This current thread is simply a subset of that original discussion.
Oh .. more importantly .. regarding the link you supplied. Wouldn't the link's PCGamer opinions refer to "brick and motor stores" that specialize in video game software, for example Game Stop, rather than stores in general that sell PC software? (For example, Best Buy, Walmart, Stapels, Office Max and so on.)
I can envision general purpose stores "cutting back" on boxed PC software and, perhaps in five years or so, eliminate the physical stocking of such software. That doesn't mean that they would cease selling PC software. But they might only sell PC software as a digital download from their online Web sites.
Where are you getting this stuff from?
Brick and mortar stores are selling fewer and fewer boxed software titles because most software is sold online now. Xbox and PlayStation are moving away from boxed software and doing it online now. The move to make the primary distribution of software an online distribution has been going on for years, long before Apple ever got an inkling to slavishly copy those who have gone before. Boxed software sections have been getting smaller and smaller for years at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, etc.
Open your eyes. The world is quite nice outside of Apple's RDF.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
Sorry, Toddy. My mistake. But Merry Christmas, non-the-less.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
As an average consumer (with no high tech knowledge), I am willing to purchase via ITunes/Apps because of Apple's overall product quality. Unfortunately, I can't say that when it comes to Android and Windows OS's.
RE: Take that Android! Apple's 100 Million Mac App Store downloads
A single Windows real application: CCleaner 750+ million downloads
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ccleaner.com
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. Keep your privacy safe online, and make your computer faster and more secure. Over 750 million downloads![/quote]
Take that to counteract your Kool-Aid.
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