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October 20, 2010

Apple bringing App Store model to the Mac

Steve Jobs just announced that the Mac desktop computer will get its own App Store. So Mac users will have access to apps in the same way that iPhone users have grown accustomed to downloading apps.

Developers will keep 70 percent of the revenues, while Apple gets the rest -- the same revenue split as the iPhone App Store.

It appears Apple is hoping that the iPhone App Store model will turbo-charge app sales for the Mac. Interesting times. It shows how Apple's mobile experience is influencing its desktop business.

Posted by Gus Sentementes at 1:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: *NEWS*, Apps

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I think this is great news. i hope apps i already have will run on my mac, kinda like iphone apps ran on a ipad, but im not holding out much hope for that.

Posted by: iPhone Apps | October 26, 2010 4:20 AM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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