14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s official report confirming the launch date of the highly-anticipated Mac App Store contains an important piece of information regarding the process through which Mac OS X Snow Leopard users will be installing the utility.
According to the Cupertino, California-based electronics and software vendor, “the Mac App Store will open for business on Thursday, January 6.”
Apple’s promise is that the Mac App Store will make discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever, “by bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS X.”
The service 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, Apple also confirmed.
The official report also includes a brief overview of the service, which goes as follows:
"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."
Towards the end of the description, Apple unveils that “The Mac App Store is available to Mac OS X Snow Leopard users as a free download through Software Update.”
What Apple meant to say was that the Mac App Store “will” be available through software update, and as a free download come January 6.
Either way, this statement acts as confirmation that the Mac App Store, unlike the iPhone and iPad App Store, will not be accessed through the iTunes application.