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Taking a page from its popular iPhone, Apple is going to be opening an App Store for the Mac.
As with the one introduced for the iPhone, which also serves the iPad and iPod touch, the store will allow Mac users to buy, download and automatically install applications for their computers over the Internet. As is the case with the iPhone App Store, the Mac OS store also will alert users when updates are available for their software and allow them to download updates for multiple programs at once.
Apple’s move marks the first time that one of the two major PC operating system vendors – Microsoft and Apple – has built an application store into their software.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac App store at a small media event at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters Oct. 20. Jobs also unveiled an updated version and a new, smaller model of its ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer with quicker start-up times and a longer-lasting battery, and an update to Apple’s iLife creative software suite.
Additionally, Jobs showed off some of the new features in the next version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system – dubbed “Lion” – [which will be released in summer 2011,] and announced that the company’s FaceTime video chat software is coming to the Mac[, with a test version of it available immediately.] [ ……. ]代表為文章中無
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The new App Store could be a huge move for Apple. The App Store the company introduced for the iPhone has been a runaway success. The store has some 300,000 applications in it – more than 3 times the number in the application marketplace that Google put together for its Android operating system – and consumers have downloaded some 7 billion applications since it launched, Jobs said.
Thanks to that success, the iOS App Store has revolutionized the way consumers get applications on their smart phones. [Since its debut, every other major maker of a smart-phone operating system has launched application stores for its devices that are integrated into their software.] [ ……. ]代表為文章中無
By offering developers a relatively inexpensive way of getting their applications out to a large audience of users, the App Store has encouraged the development of a wide range of low-cost applications.

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The Mac App Store may not be similarly successful. But it shores up a problem faced by Mac users, analysts say. With few PC software stores around these days and electronics and general retailers devoting little space to PC software – much less Mac software – Mac programs can be hard to find outside of Apple’s own retail stores.
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The Mac App Store will have some important differences from the iOS one. It won’t carry iOS software, and it won’t work on every Mac. Consumers will have to be running the latest version of the Mac OS X software – 10.6 Snow Leopard – to access the store.
Moreover, unlike the iOS App Store, the Mac one won’t be the only way consumers obtain software for their devices. Mac users will still be able to buy packaged software at retail stores and will still be able to download software over the Internet.
The other new feature coming to Macs is FaceTime, which will allow Mac users to make video calls with their friends on iPhones or iPod Touch devices.Apple introduced FaceTime when it unveiled the iPhone 4 in June. Last month, the company added the feature to its iPod Touch line when it updated the handheld device with two cameras. Apple has now shipped some 19 million FaceTime devices between the iPhone 4 and the new iPod Touch, Jobs said.
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The new MacBook Air includes a 13.3-inch LED display, a Core 2 Duo processor and a FaceTime camera. Instead of an optical drive or hard disk drive, it only includes a solid-state flash memory drive. “It’s one of the most amazing things we’ve ever created,” Jobs said. “We think it’s the future of notebooks.”