Apple Mac App Store to Start Business in 90 Countries on January 6th, 2011

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12/18/2010 05:49:00 PM - 0 comments

The Cupertino, California-based Apple has released a statement that the highly-anticipated Mac App Store, and online that was specially design for Mac users, will be released on Thursday, January 6, 2011. The company said that the Mac App Store will be open for business in 90 countries and will feature both free and paid apps.

“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”

Apple announced the Mac App Store in October and it offers Mac apps developers a 70-30 split in revenues for every sold apps.

“Mac developers set the price for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit developer.apple.com/programs/mac.”

Meanwhile, Cydia creator Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, is also planning to release a Mac version of its Cydia App Store which is popuar in jailbroken iOS devices, however there were no release date available but it is expected to release very soon.