Even Microsoft May Sell “Office For Mac” At Hugely Successful Mac App Store
Posted on 30 January 2011. | Posted by Martha Astbury
Though It's Only Been Three Weeks Since Mac App Store Opened, Some Mac Software Customers Won't Buy Anywhere Else.
The Mac App Store opened for business on January 6. It’s a website where Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Mac users can find, buy and download Mac software from a single location, in the same way that you shop for iPhone and iPad apps. There is no charge for access to the Mac store. You just need the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. You can add a Mac App Store icon to your dock by downloading the latest update of the store for free.
You can browse the Mac App Store the same way you’d browse the iTunes Store for your iPhone. In fact, you don’t have to open a separate account with the Mac store if you already have one with the iTunes Store. And you can use any credit you may presently have with the iTunes Store to buy software for Mac from the Mac App Store.
The Mac store offers Mac programs that were written by Apple of course, but it also offers Mac software that was designed by third parties. Even Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is rumored to be considering selling their Office for Mac software through the Mac store. Other third party Mac software developers who have been accepted by the store are very pleased to be there.
Some of those third party developers are claiming that they’ve sold more copies of their apps in the last three weeks than in all of 2010. Those developers whose products are still going through Apple’s revue process are very eager to get them into the Mac store. Though it has only been three short weeks since the Mac App store was opened, there are already Apple customers who will only buy Mac programs that are carried there.
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