Mac App Store
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digital app distribution platform for macOS
Key facts
- Developer
- Apple
- Initial release
- January 6, 2011 ; 15 years ago ( 2011-01-06 )
- Operating system
- macOS
- Type
- Digital distribution and software update
- Website
- apple.com/app-store
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- app marketplace
- Operator
- Apple Inc.
- Publisher
- Apple Inc.
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Official website
- www.apple.com/app-store
- Has use
- digital distribution
Show 3 more facts
- operating system
- macOS
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/mac-app-store
- different from
- App Store
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mac App Store (also known as the App Store) is a digital distribution platform for macOS apps, often referred to as Mac apps, created and maintained by Apple. The platform was announced on October 20, 2010, at Apple's "Back to the Mac" event. Apple began accepting app submissions from registered developers on November 3, 2010, in preparation for its launch.
The Mac App Store was launched on January 6, 2011, as part of the free Mac OS X 10.6.6 update for all current Snow Leopard users. After 24 hours of release, Apple announced that there were over one million downloads.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mac App Store” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.