Apple’s new Mac App Store had more than 1 million downloads on its first day, the company announced Friday. Joining App Stores for the iPod, iPhone and iPad, this latest online venue for Mac applications was rolled into the Mac OS X 10.6.6 released for Snow Leopard users.
“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is,” Jobs adds.
However, the reception hasn’t been complete success. As we’ve reported, pirates are already claiming they’ve circumvented the App Store’s DRM, enabling paid applications to operate simply by using info from free apps.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
