• Apple: Mac App Store Will Be Open For Business In 90 Countries On January 6

    Thursday, December 16th, 2010

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Apple this morning announced that the Mac App Store will open on Thursday, January 6. At launch, it will be available in 90 countries and feature both paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities.

    In a short statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:

    “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps. 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 Jan 6.”

    Our previous coverage:

    Tread Lightly When Embracing The Mac App Store

    Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps?

    Company: Apple
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    Launch Date: April 1, 1976
    IPO: NASDAQ:AAPL

    Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with...

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