Once you update your software and get the App store link on your Mac toolbar it doesn’t take long before you’ve downloaded your first few apps for free. My first two have been Text Wrangler (a tool for HTML & other code editing) and Sketch Book Express (a sketching tool that allows you to draw graphics like the one I did above in about 15 mins) and immediately my Mac is even better than the dream-machine that it is.
Obviously, there are more than a few paid apps to choose from, but the store will inevitably help to make more and more software packages more affordable as it provides much easier access to competitor software and development. There are x numbers of apps to choose from and like the iPhone & iPad apps before them, there is plenty of scope for future development.
Excitingly, it transforms the Mac into the games console that I have long been hoping for. If you’ve ever headed into a Mac store to check out the games, you’ll know that they’re few and far between, but the Mac App store brings a new wealth of gaming to your computer, ranging from 69p mini games, right the way up to the sumptuously designed Call of Duty Modern Warfare at £30. Expect a lot more from Apple in 2011.
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