The next Apple Goldmine for Developers opens

The Apple Mac App Store starts to accept apps.

Nov 4 2010, 2:33am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

The next Apple Goldmine for Developers opens

Apple has announced the Mac App Store in October. The Mac App Store resembles the iOS App Store. The store will bring the simplicity of finding and purchasing apps to the OS X world. According to MacRumors, developers can now submit their first apps for the Mac App Store to Apple for review.

The Mac App Store will hit Snow Leopard within the next 90 days from the day of announcement (Oct.). It will of course also support the upcoming OS X Lion release in 2011.The Mac App Store works pretty similar to the iOS App Store. It has similar guidelines and developer need to pay $99/year to for access to the developer program. For developers the new Mac App Store could become an even bigger goldmine than the one for the iPhone and iPad. Desktop software can be higher priced and margins will be much higher. Additionally the $.99 apps and games will also thrive on the Apple Mac Store.

Just for anecdotal reasons. Steve Jobs said in April that a Mac App Store is not in the works. Six month later Apple announced it. Just keep this in mind next time Steve Jobs says that Apple is not working on for instance a 7-inch iPad.

In related news: If you are in the market for an Apple product this Holidays, we have just published the Apple Black Friday Deals Guide, featuring the best deals on Apple gear available.

Updates

Mayor Bloomberg Adds $4.5 Million Estate To Extensive Real Estate Portfolio

Source: CBS New York

Click "Add to Timeline" to publish what you read to Facebook See what your friends have read on CBS Local sites Use "Remove" or "Turn off" to disable at any time Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a news confer ...
Full article at: CBS New York More like this 23 minutes ago

Here Are The Best iPhone Apps You Missed This Week (AAPL)

Source: The Business Insider

A lot of new and updated apps were released this week. They include an interesting Camera from Facebook that gives us Instagram vibes, Yahoo's entry into the mobile browser game, an app that analyzes which other apps are using your informat ...
Full article at: The Business Insider More like this 25 minutes ago

Big-box wine

Source: Dallas Morning News

The era of killer big-box stores is waning for books, electronics and office supplies, but one category is thriving: wine stores.Dallas shoppers are seeing some of the best prices and selections ever as new competitors enter the market a ...
Full article at: Dallas Morning News More like this 26 minutes ago

where to buy

Buy from Amazon

Don't miss ...

Apple

iPad mini Rumors continue

Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com. Luigi posts regularly on LuigiMe.com about his experience running I4U.