昨晚，Apple 宣佈 Mac App Store 在開業不足一年時間下載量就超過一億次。目前 Mac App Store 提供大約 500,000 款應用程式並徹底改變整個應用程式市場的生態，並令用家在購買應用程式時更方便。目前 Mac App Store 提供多款應用程式及遊戲，包括：OS X Lion、Final Cut Pro、iWork、GTA 、touchgrind。
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轉自：http://www.apple.com/hk/pr/library/2011/12/12Apples-Mac-App-Store-Downloads-Top-100-Million.html（Apple）Apple 的 Mac App Store 下載量逾一億加州 Cupertino — 2011 年 12 月 12 日—Apple® 今天宣佈，Mac® App Store™ 中的應用程式下載量在不足一年的時間內已超过了一億次。Mac App Store 為你提供數千款免費及付費應用程式，將 App Store 的體驗帶到 Mac 上，讓你可以輕鬆發掘各種全新應用程式，並使用 iTunes® 帳號購買，只需要輕輕一點即可完成下載與安裝。Apple 以 App Store 為應用程式行業帶來了革命性的改變，App Store 現在已提供了超過 500,000 款應用程式，其中顧客已下載量以超過了 180 億，並且每月 10 億 的應用程式下載數量仍在攀升。Apple 的全球產品市場高級副總裁 Philip Schiller 表示：「在短短的三年裡 App Store 就改變了人們獲取流動應用程式的方式，而 Mac App Store 現在則逐步改變傳統的 PC 軟件行業。在不足一年的時間裡，Mac App Store 的應用程式下載數量已達到了一億次，是全球最大且增長速度最快的 PC 軟件商店。」Autodesk 的平台解決方案及新興業務部門高級副總裁 Amar Hanspal 表示：「Autodesk 的產品同時在 App Store 與 Mac App Store 內提供，我們可以輕鬆地為全球數以億計的 Apple 用戶提供服務。我們可以透過 Mac App Store 為 Mac 顧客提供免費的 AutoCAD WS 及更強勁的專業繪圖工具 AutoCAD LT，並接觸到不斷增長的 Mac 新用戶。」來自 Pixelmator 團隊的 Saulius Dailide 稱：「Mac App Store 的成就無人能及，而它更徹底地改變了我們的軟件發行及開發方式。在 Mac App Store 上獨家推出 Pixelmator 2.0 讓我們可以更高效率地為我們的圖像編輯軟件提供更新，獲得市場領先地位。」algoriddim 的總裁 Karim Morsy 稱：「在不足一年的時間內，我們將 Mac 版本的 djay 改為僅在 Mac App Store 內獨家提供。只需要幾個點擊，我們就可以為全球多達 123 個國家的顧客提供 Mac 版本的 djay 應用程式，這是傳統渠道方式所無法實現的。」Mac App Store 提供教育、遊戲、圖像與設計、生活方式、生產、工具等類別的數千款應用程式。用戶可以瀏覽全新推出與出采的應用程式，發掘最熱門的軟件，查看員工最愛，搜尋各個類別並分別查看付費及免費應用程式的排行榜，同時查看用戶評分與評價。Mac App Store 隨附於 Mac OS® X Lion 內，同時以軟件更新的方式為使用 Mac OS X Snow Leopard® 的 Mac 提供。請參閱 www.apple.com/hk/mac/app-store 以了解詳情。Mac 開發人員為他們的應用程式定價，保留 70% 銷售收益，同時無需為推出的免費應用程式付費，也無需支付網站代管、營銷或信用卡等費用。要進一步了解如何為 Mac App Store 開發軟件，請參閱 developer.apple.com/programs/mac。Apple 設計了全球最佳的個人電腦 Mac，與及傑出的 OS X 操作系統、iLife、iWork 及專業應用程式。Apple 憑藉其 iPod 可攜式音樂及視像播放器及 iTunes 網上商店，帶領業界數碼媒體潮流，Apple 革命性的 iPhone 及 App Store 創造了流動電話市場的新景象。最近面世神奇革命性 iPad 2 更為未來流動媒體及裝置立下新的標準。傳媒聯絡人：Carolyn WuApple 公司Tiffany YangApple 公司Apple、Apple 標誌、Mac、Mac OS、Macintosh、App Store、Multi-Touch、Snow Leopard、iTunes Store 及 Apple Store 均為 Apple 的商標。其他公司和產品名稱可能是其擁有者的商標。
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Apple’s Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million
CUPERTINO, California—December 12, 2011—Apple® today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store™ in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, and download and install them in just one step. Apple revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.
“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”
“With Autodesk products in both the App Store and Mac App Store, we can reach hundreds of millions of Apple users around the world,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president of Platform Solutions and Emerging Business at Autodesk. “With our free AutoCAD WS and the more powerful professional drafting tools of AutoCAD LT, we’re using the Mac App Store to deliver new products and reach a growing base of new Mac customers.”
“The Mac App Store has unparalleled reach and has completely transformed our distribution and development cycle,” said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. “Offering Pixelmator 2.0 exclusively on the Mac App Store allows us to streamline updates to our image editing software and stay ahead of the competition.”
“In less than one year we’ve shifted the distribution of djay for Mac exclusively to the Mac App Store,” said Karim Morsy, CEO of algoriddim. “With just a few clicks, djay for Mac is available to customers in 123 countries worldwide. We could never have that reach through traditional channels.”
The Mac App Store offers thousands of apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is included with Mac OS® X Lion and is available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard®. For more information visit, www.apple.com/mac/app-store.
Mac developers set the prices for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit, developer.apple.com/programs/mac.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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