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Mac App Store Reportedly Set to Launch at Noon Eastern Time Tomorrow

Wednesday January 5, 2011 9:31 am PST by Eric Slivka

According to The Loop, Apple is apparently planning to open the Mac App Store at noon Eastern Time tomorrow, bringing a variation of the company's integrated application purchasing system for iOS to the Mac OS X platform.

The Mac App Store will officially launch on January 6, but nobody has been able to nail down a time when the service will be publicly available.

According to my sources, the Mac App Store will be available at 12:00 pm (noon) ET on Thursday. That puts it at about 9:00 am PT where Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif.

The Loop's Jim Dalrymple is a veteran Apple-focused journalist who early last month accurately claimed that the Mac App Store would launch in January, despite several rumors circulating at the time claiming that Apple would open the store before the holidays.

Just yesterday, we noted that several high-profile iOS developers are bringing Mac versions of their applications to the Mac App Store in the initial wave, generally opting to price their offering inline with the corresponding iOS versions.
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rhinosrcool
18 months ago
Can't wait to see how this works out.
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k2director
18 months ago
Hope there's a new version of iWork.
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swagi
18 months ago
Sounds right to me...

...otherwise tomorrow's news will be filled with all the stuff announced at CES - and none of it will be Apple related.
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ShiftyPig
18 months ago
If there's no Angry Birds, I'm uninstalling it.
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petvas
18 months ago

If there's no Angry Birds, I'm uninstalling it.


I guess you are joking.
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mike31mets
18 months ago
is that also the time that they plan on releasing 10.6.6 tomorrow as well?
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sasza
18 months ago
Go Apple! :) Bring also retail version of iWork 11 ;)
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dscuber9000
18 months ago
I can't wait! I always thought installing things on Mac was unnecessarily complex.
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hayesk
18 months ago

I can't wait! I always thought installing things on Mac was unnecessarily complex.


Yeah, dragging an icon into an Applications folder was so difficult. ;)
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felt.
18 months ago

I can't wait! I always thought installing things on Mac was unnecessarily complex.


For sure, I always forget if I'm supposed to drag the app to my app folder to install it or shoot myself in the face.
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