Mac App Store - First Impressions

Today, a little earlier than expected, the world saw the Mac App Store - an application store for Macintosh computers.

Let's look inside this big event.

What do you need

In order to have the opportunity to use the Mac App Store, you need to upgrade your computer's OS to Snow Leopard 10.6.6. The update is small, so a lot of time it does not take you.
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Mac App Store will rise only on those computers that support Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Updated

This is what the Mac App Store looks like, which is launched by a separate application (after the update it will be in the dock to the right from Finder). There are about 1000 applications in it, but there are standing ones among them. Although the situation is somewhat similar to the opening of the iPhone App Store in 2008, then there was a lot of garbage among applications.

What is in the store?

Now all Apple software products can be purchased through the Mac App Store. Also here there are already well-known brands: Rovio (yes, Angry Birds on Mac), MacPaw, Autodesk, Twitter and others. It is worth noting very fresh ideas in the UI. So, for example, Twitter 2 for Mac looks like:

Pirate software

I managed to share my copy of Twitter 2 with @genn_org , and it started. But it is not yet known for sure whether the purchased applications will be launched on third-party computers.