{"id":1997,"date":"2011-01-06T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2011-01-06T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:46:07","slug":"apple-releases-app-store-for-mac-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/apple-releases-app-store-for-mac-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases App Store For Mac Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mac users can now quickly search for, buy and download applications for their Macs, the same way iPhone, iPod and iPad users do. \u00a0It&#8217;s through the new <strong>Mac App Store<\/strong>, which is now available in the latest Snow Leopard update.<\/p>\n<p>After updating Snow Leopard (Mac &gt; Software Update) you&#8217;ll see the blue App Store icon in your application toolbar. \u00a0Launching it will bring up a window where you can search, browse, buy and download apps. \u00a0Just like with the iPhone and iPad, all purchases are made and managed through iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blog_macapp_big.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1999\" title=\"blog_macapp_big\" src=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blog_macapp_big.png\" alt=\"blog_macapp_big\" width=\"475\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blog_macapp_big.png 475w, https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blog_macapp_big-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the apps are&#8230;and have been&#8230;available separately through individual web sites, so at this point the app store is more of a search tool to help you find existing apps by categories. \u00a0But over time it will become populated with plenty of apps only available in the app store.<\/p>\n<p>A special note to developers: while Windows remains the dominant operating system in the world, Apple does own 90% of the market for computers costing $1,000+. \u00a0That means in general, Mac users are more willing to spend money than Windows users. \u00a0So if you&#8217;re interested in developing apps for this market, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/programs\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\">all the details are here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac users can now quickly search for, buy and download applications for their Macs, the same way iPhone, iPod and iPad users do. \u00a0It&#8217;s through the new Mac App Store, which is now available in the latest Snow Leopard update. After updating Snow Leopard (Mac &gt; Software Update) you&#8217;ll see the blue App Store icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[758,757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}