You can’t really blame developers for not being enthusiastic about developing apps for Apple’s legacy computing platform. According to popular app directory AppShopper, out of the 1.6 million total apps listed, only about 30,000 of them are Mac apps. Apple hasn’t yet published the number of apps on the Mac App Store and probably for a good reason - those numbers possibly aren’t great.
But unlike its mobile-centric cousin, this App Store hasn’t seen much traction. Since 2008, it’s home to over two million apps designed to work on iPhones, with nearly half of them optimised for the bigger-screened iPads.Īfter the roaring success of iOS App Store, Apple launched the Mac App Store two years later, in 2010. The iOS App Store has been one of the three pillars of Apple’s mobile growth story - the other two being the hardware and the operating system.
