App Store

App store application store, is usually understood as the app store. App Store is a apple iPhone and iPod Touch, iPad and Mac created the service, allowing users from the iTunes Store or Mac app store to browse and download to iPhone SDK or Mac development application. The user can purchase or free trial, so the application is downloaded directly to the iPhone or iPod touch, iPad, mac. Contains: Games, calendar, translator, gallery, and a lot of practical software. App Store from iPhone and iPod touch, iPad and MAC app store are all of the same name.

History

In March 6, 2008, Apple released the iPhone application development kit ( SDK ), available for free download, so that third party application developers for the development of iPhone and Touch application software. Less than a week, in March 12th, Apple announced that it has received over 100000 downloads, three months later, the figure rises to 250000. Apple has since the introduction of products in the technology to maintain a certain closed, such as the Mac, the launch of SDK can be said to be open to hitherto unknown. Following the SDK launch, in July 11th the same year, apple APP Store officially launched. In July 14th, APP Store application available for download to already amounted to 800, achieve 1 millions of downloads. In January 16, 2009, the digital refresh for, more than 15000 applications, more than 500000000 downloads. In January 6, 2011, app store extension to MAC platform. The APP Store platform most of the price is less than $10, and about 20% of the application is available for free download. Users purchase application fees paid by apple and application developers to 3: 7 into.

Significance

App store model significance for the third party software provider to provide a convenient and efficient a software sales platform, so that third party software provider participation enthusiasm is all-time and rising, adapted to the mobile phone users to personalize the demand of software, which makes the mobile phone software industry begins to enter a high-speed, benign development the track, Apple's App store such a business moved to a people follow the mode of operation, the apple App store create a new chapter in the development of mobile phone software industry, App store will undoubtedly become a mobile phone software industry development history of an important milepost, its meaning has been far beyond "iPhone 's App Store" itself.