News - Mac App Store downloads top 1 million

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[TheAnimus]

I'm confused.

1 Million downloads of their marketplace software (because you know, why have a website!) or 1 million downloads of different apps from it?

First off, sad as most mactards are, there just isn't 1M of them waiting to go in the first 24 hours, that would be well over twice the number of children who's parents can afford to buy them expensively slow computers.

So viewed the otherway, the figures aren't that great. Thats 1,000 downloads for every free app. I've put free apps up and had that in 24 hours when the internets was much smaller place, because ultimately at least 10 of them will have been the dev studio/mates testing it!

I must admit thou, st. jobs is still doing a terrific job on the press despite the elastic band requiring flagship alarming software bugs that they knew about and sat on this week.

It also still bugs me that everyone has adapoted this push for calling android 'fragmentation' its not, its diversification, fragmentation implies that its ment to be one same thing.

[cameronlite]

They mean the number of apps downloaded, not the number of app store downloads. That would imply the cult was 1 million strong

[TheAnimus]

Big difference in that and how its written?

Over 1 million app-happy customers have downloaded applications from Apple's Mac App Store just one day after it opened.

That suggests to me its the number of customers ie unique visitors?

[Legthigh]

And its already been cracked...

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/t...acked-2011017/

[Repressor]

There is quite a bit of confusion over which 1 million it is..?

1M unique users downloading the Mac App Store Software.

1M unique users downloading an app.

1M overall apps dowloaded.

IMHO, none of these are news worthy or impressive tbh.

"Windows 7 SP1 DLed by 50 million in the first 24 hours"... etc.

[Barakka]

That suggests to me its the number of customers ie unique visitors?

All the other sites are quoting;

Apple has announced that the Mac App Store has seen more than one million app downloads in its opening 24 hours of trading.

So yeah, number of downloads, not unique customers.

And the hack for it... yeah, not sure what they mean by;

So we’re not going to release Kickback until well after the store’s been established, well after developers have gotten their applications up. We don’t want to devalue applications and frustrate developers.

Surely releasing it now would only damage Apple and the big boys like Autodesk etc as they're the only ones with Apps up, but instead they're waiting until independent developers have put apps up then releasing a hack to destroy their profits ?!?

But again, Apple making a headline from a routine website launch...

[Nelsaidi]

Just like with Apple's model, developers' apps will have to be approved by Amazon before going on sale in contrast to the current Android Market practice but they will receive 70 percent of sales too.

Typo?

I'm primarily windows, and must say something like this is nice, its like steam but for more apps, gete what you want at any time. I havent used it so cant comment, but free software makes stuff nice, like that ubuntu programme finder or whatever (dunno what its called)

[TheAnimus]

Also the thing is on the surface it can be a bit safer than telling a parent to go to download the program via google.

[mikerr]

So apple now gets 30% of mac apps as well as iPhone apps.
and get to approve which apps they allow on.

Pretty poor security too - many (all?) paid apps can be used for free simply by copying the signature file from a free app !

[TheAnimus]

Pretty poor security too - many (all?) paid apps can be used for free simply by copying the signature file from a free app !

Oh where did you hear that?

I mean I'd assume that anyone would cyrptographically sign their sig files that were used for such system (with some reference to the target machine too).

But then again, I'd assume that someone could write an alarm that worked, or at least get it correct on the second attempt, or have some form of QA. But no, you spend the budget on reminding everyone that the nasty software hidden in pirate versions of desirable software (final cut etc) are not viruses....

[mikerr]

Oh where did you hear that?

I'm not linking to a howto - but
http://www.cultofmac.com/mac-app-sto...alidated/75906

[Whiternoise]

I updated to 10.6.6 today, not blown away by the App Store. It seems to suffer from the same problems as a lot of websites and markets these days - whiney reviewers.

It's impossible to gauge how good an application is because people moan about stupid things like "this version doesn't work with my mac". For God's sake people, that tells me nothing about how good the App is, it's like saying Visual Studio is tripe because it doesn't work on Linux.

Seems Apple's caught on and they've got a "ratings for this version" tab so you can filter out old reviews, but it's still a big problem.

cf. Angry Birds - amazing time waster, hamstringed by reviews on the App Store by people with Macs that don't have OpenGL 2.0 and are saying they didn't realise before they installed the game. How is that different from not reading the requirements on the back of the packet?

[cameronlite]

technically, there shouldnt be any issues because Macs just work...

[slypie]

It's a good idea and surprising Apple haven't done this sooner given the popularity of the Tunes store.

[spoon_]

technically, there shouldnt be any issues because Macs just work...

They do just work the same way as Windows and its flagship product - Windows 7.

Why do you think SP1 had 50 million downloads in first 24h?