After passing the 100 million app downloads marker, Apple’s Mac App Store has now hit another milestone. According to third-party estimates, the store’s catalog now has over 10,000 apps.
“French outlet MacGeneration today posted its estimate of the tally based on its own data,” reported CNET on Friday. “Macrumors later pointed to its Appshopper site that pulls App Store data and currently lists the store’s total at 10,334 apps.”
“To put the benchmark — which an Apple spokesperson declined to confirm — in context, it took Apple’s App Store for iPhone (and later iOS) less than half a year to reach 10,000 apps,” explains the post. “At the same time, that store had pulled in more than 300 million downloads, Apple said. Worth pointing out though, is that the App Store is the only way to officially get software on the iOS platform, whereas Mac users can install from other sources.”
In future editions of Apple’s Mac OS, like the upcoming Mountain Lion to be released this summer, the App Store will play a bigger part with functions like “Gatekeeper” that protects against malware and limits new app installations to the Mac App Store.
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