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First-Day Mac App Store Downloads Top 1 Million

guzhogi said:
I wonder how much $ was made by Apple.

Appleinsider reports that within 9 hours, the DRM was already hacked. Looks like many apps just look to see if it has a valid receipt, not whether the receipt belongs to that app & person. Could get a lot more money if developers took the 5-10 minutes needed to do proper receipt checking.
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It wasn't really hacked, developers have the option of doing every basic checking to see if you bought the app, this has come back to bit them. For example you can not get iPhoto for free, but you can get Angry Birds for free. Because they only check to see if you have a receipt, but don't check to see if it is a valid receipt.
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
But there's practically no way for most free apps to make money. Bob's Hex Editor doesn't have a titan like Facebook or Google behind it. I don't know how many people will be willing to pay $99 a year to distribute their freeware to you. With the iPhone there's usually an upsell or ads.
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Do you think we will start seeing ads in Mac Apps now?
 
Ulf1103 said:
You can still download apps straight from the internet, right?
And does someone know if we stil can download apps from the internet (not true the mac-app store) whit Lion?
'cuase ther're gonna be some apps that we like but apple don't gonna give them to us true the mac-app store...
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No, Lion will have no internet access whatsoever. And it will come with armed guards to stop you if you try to physically bring a disc to the machine. Get real.
 
off course jobs will say 1 million is fantastic.
But 1 million is not very much, i downloaded yesterday 5 apps..
 
calderone said:
"Hey Developers, make some cool apps and give them to me for free."
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Why not? There is a huge number of amazing, free games. Cave Story anyone?

Some people just make stuff for the fun of making stuff :rolleyes:. I did throughout school, college and university.
 
JAT said:
No, Lion will have no internet access whatsoever. And it will come with armed guards to stop you if you try to physically bring a disc to the machine. Get real.
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No but they could refuse installation of anything not signed by Apple's App Store. Given Apple's recent clamping down it wouldn't surprise me if they went down this route. But I also don't see it ever happening.
 
Hopefully Apple learned its lesson from the App Store and will be a bit more selective of what apps make it into this store. Pretty sure my Mac will be just fine without a fart app.
 
Dagless said:
No but they could refuse installation of anything not signed by Apple's App Store. Given Apple's recent clamping down it wouldn't surprise me if they went down this route. But I also don't see it ever happening.
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I really can't see Apple clamping down that much on OS X, I mean I can understand the need for it on iOS but it just won't work with a computer Operating System.
 
litchie said:
Not that great a number.. given the exposure it had.
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it didnt have lots of exposure, us technodweebs knew about it, but mass market?? dont think so.. 1m day one is pretty good .. appstore is a game changer, as it was for the iphone
 
Just found the App Store icon today

I updated to 10.6.6 yesterday -- just like all the other combo updates.

This time though, Apple placed the App Store icon in the Applications folder. I didn't see that until today (because I have all my daily apps installed on my dock). I wonder how many users that don't follow Mac news and forums even know that they have a new App Store icon after updating to 10.6.6?

Would have been nice if Apple initially installed the App Store icon in the dock so that the users would know that it is something new.
 
ziggyonice said:
I wish iOS apps could just be recompiled for Mac OS X. We'd probably see a surge in the number of apps on the store.
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No thanks.

I really can't see Apple clamping down that much on OS X, I mean I can understand the need for it on iOS but it just won't work with a computer Operating System.
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I can. In fact, if App Store adoption is faster than Apple expected, I can see it happening as soon as Lion is released.
 
I searched through the available apps for quite a few minutes, but didn't see anything of interest, but then again I don't really care to litter my Mac with freebie and 99 cent games.

I put this in the same boat as the iBookstore and Ping - too little content to be of interest, at this time.
 
talkingfuture said:
I wonder how many items of software were bought from the physical Apple stores yesterday? (I hope nobody bought Aperture on disk, ouch)
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Selling Aperture via AMS at the reduced rate will not dent profit margins. My guess is once the software sits on the server, then there is minimal cost of deploying it as a download, whereas a hard copy (Disk) requires lots of costs and external costs too. I can think of:

Design and printing of materials, case, etc.
DVD-ROM
Printing and burning
Distribution
Warehouse
Store margin

Etc...
 
zed said:
Do you think we will start seeing ads in Mac Apps now?
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Why not? if it makes good apps free that they would charge otherwise for. The only important thing is that they are not flashing in your face - something like iAds would be nice I don't mind seeing ads in good iOS apps and click from time to time on them to support the developer (and with iAds to see the well made ad) . Many apps also have in the meantime a model where you can try from free with ad support and than have the option remove the ads via in-app-purchase. This is really a model I like.
 
Aeolius said:
I searched through the available apps for quite a few minutes, but didn't see anything of interest, but then again I don't really care to litter my Mac with freebie and 99 cent games.

I put this in the same boat as the iBookstore and Ping - too little content to be of interest, at this time.
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I work along the lines of only having apps on my MBP that I actually need to use (not want to use). I can't see the point of having stuff you don't need. It's a bit like buying clothes you will never wear!

There is only so much you can need apps for... I do web design, e-learning development, video and photography, finance, invoices, DTP, etc and can do all of this using about six apps!
 
yeh smart business and this ads a value incentive to prospective mac buyers..
well done apple..
 
Mister Snitch said:
Google gives an entire operating system away for free. Facebook loses money in its operations, yet the company is worth billions. Over-the-air TV costs nada for a consumer to watch.

There are plenty of ways for apps to make money besides merely charging for the app.
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Then name a few that WORK, meaning that your business model of giving away apps for free covers the rent, food, all other living expenditures and even gives the author a few bucks to spend on other things every month. And don't come with the "you can charge for support" nonsense -- that approach might work for IBM and Oracle because they have CORPORATE customers. It doesn't work for a mom & pop software shop, and definitely not in the consumer ecosystem. And in the corporate ecosystem, the software developers are still doing full time what they want to do - and that is writing software - the support is done by other employees.

I think you will quickly discover that this is easily said but extremely hard to actually do.

If a tiny company wants to make a living with writing software, it has to charge for the software. End of story.
 
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