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Mac App Store hits one million downloads on day one

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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).

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..."

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

i know - but i assume thats how it will end up anyway.

I did pay for Pixelmator again.

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

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.

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.

How many of these are bootlegs?

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

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

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

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

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).

you sure itunes also shows buys made from the iphone?

It will show any purchases or rentals made in iTunes (including the App Store) on any platform. Apple will also email you a receipt after a purchase (including free "purchases").

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