Apples Mac App Store to Open on January 6

Apple today announced that the Mac App Store will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever. The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will feature paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities.

“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.”

The Mac App Store lets you browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, view staff favorites, search categories and read customer ratings and reviews. Like on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, you can purchase, download and install apps in just one click and start using them immediately. Purchased apps can run on all of your personal Macs and updates are delivered directly through the Mac App Store so it’s easy to keep all of your apps up to date. The Mac App Store is available to Mac OS X Snow Leopard users as a free download through Software Update.

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.

View the original article here

Apples device beats Nokias flagship by a wide margin, says analyst Morgan Stanley

Apple iPhones are outselling Nokia’s N8 by six to one, according to analyst Morgan Stanley. The survey, which covered 150 phone shops across Europe, found Apple’s device was outselling Nokia’s flagship model by a wide margin. Despite this, the analyst said the N8 was not selling as badly as feared. It predicted Nokia would sell 25 million N8s in the quarter and 9 million through 2011. Morgan Stanley added that the manufacturer would maintain share of 35% – down from 37% now – given the rest of its line up.

Customers were reportedly happy with the N8 in most areas bar the Ovi store’s app count, which was well behind the iPhone’s own store.

Nokia’s N8 is the manufacturer’s flagship model and the basis on which it has placed its smartphone strategy.

Apple shipped 14.1 million iPhones in just the summer and is expected to beat that figure during its next quarter.

[Via]

View the original article here

Video: Apples latest iPad ad

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

View the original article here