Mac App Store hits one million downloads on day one

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/mac-app-store-hits-one-million-downloads-on-day-one/

by shawndumas • 16 years ago

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haribilalic4• 16 years ago

Apple PR: "1 Million Downloads on Mac App Store!"

Twitter PR: "900,000 Downloads of Twitter for Mac in 24 Hours!"

https://twitter.com/shawnblanc/status/23391070813425666

It's a joke, but I bet there is a heavy skew towards free software and new software. You're probably not going to pay for iWork a second time. It isn't all Twitter though; the guys at Evernote saw new sign ups from Mac increase by 1,800% (https://twitter.com/evernote/status/23116726547775488).

to4• 16 years ago

lol thats the first thing i said after reading about 1mil downloads... "bet its 90% the twitter client because nobody wants to spend 50 bucks on all the other apps..."

macrael• 16 years ago

To be clear, the above is a joke. Twitter has not released their numbers.

rimantas• 16 years ago

I did pay for Pixelmator again.

to4• 16 years ago

btw. did anyone ever discovered a purchasing history on itunes/app store?

haribilalic4• 16 years ago

The Mac App Store has a purchases tab and iTunes on the Mac shows you your purchase history under your account (click your Apple ID in the top right corner and select Account).

to4• 16 years ago

you sure itunes also shows buys made from the iphone?

lwhi2• 16 years ago

How many of these are bootlegs?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/01/06/mac-app-store-bo...

haribilalic4• 16 years ago

None, probably, because bootlegs are not distributed through the App Store and use an existing receipt.

lwhi2• 16 years ago

Ah, okay, thx - I didn't realise.

tvon• 16 years ago

Is that a lot? Any numbers how how much software is acquired by any other means on any given day?

kenjackson• 16 years ago

I don't think its much at all. I think WP7 gets about 600K downloads per day, and that's WP7.

The iOS store gets over 16 million downloads per day.

Given the existing user base and with it being the launch day of the store, 1M downloads looks pretty mediocre.

epistasis• 16 years ago

Could be, but remember that getting access to the store requires installing an OS update with a reboot, and that OS updates aren't forced onto everyone on their day of release, and that it takes a week or two for all users to be bothered with an update message. When you combine that with the rather low-key marketing (no marketing?), I think that 1 million is probably a lower bound on daily activity, and that it will only climb from here.

Mac App Store hits one million downloads on day one

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