Articles tagged Mac App Store.

Mac App Store Now at Critical Mass

September 16, 2011 14:19 by: Karl Johnson   1 Comment

Categories: Mac Applications , Products , Review

Tagged: Mac App Store

The Mac App Store (MAS) lacked most of the valuable software when Apple first debuted it last January. At that time it was a poor place for users to find new software. Most of the apps on the MAS were of low quality, except for Apple's.

That has all changed in the past ten months, as more and more of the top developers are either moving completely to the MAS or are selling on both the MAS and in the tradition way. Pixelmator was the first major software to test the waters and it grossed over one million dollars. That's simply too much money for other developers to pass up.

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Three Free Utilities in the Mac App Store

May 18, 2011 14:12 by: Karl Johnson   1 Comment

Categories: Mac Applications

Tagged: Mac App Store

Apple opened the Mac App Store in January of 2011. Since then, several big developers have added their applications to the store like Omni Group and AutoDesk. Still many more big and small developers have yet to add their applications. While the Mac App Store application quality has improved slowly, there is still a long way to go before it is the main place to get all applications on the Mac.

Even if the Mac Apple Store does not have all the best applications, there are still a lot of great new and old applications to be found there. Today, we will look at two new and one old utility that can be found in the Store.

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