Items tagged with Mac App Store

by Shane McGlaun - Mon, Sep 10, 2018

Apple Reacts As Multiple Mac App Store Apps Caught Stealing Private Browsing Data

The app market for just about every platform out there is rife with developers who use nefarious techniques to trick users into giving them access to their valuable personal data. You might expect this to be a problem with third-party app stores for Android devices, but some might be surprised to learn that Apple is... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 13, 2018

Calendar 2 Cryptocurrency Mining App Discovered In Curated Mac App Store

Everyone is looking to make a buck with cryptocurrency these days, and unfortunately it has gotten to the point where even unrelated apps and websites are prone to using your device's resources for mining, often without the user's consent. It has been a problem for Google Play, and now also the Mac App Store. It's... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 12, 2011

Mac Heads Downloading 1 Billion Apps Per Month, Apple Says

It's taken Apple fans less than a year to download over 100 million apps from the Mac App Store, according to Apple. The Mac App Store is now home to half a million free and paid apps and is where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps at a clip of greater than 1 billion apps per month, the Cupertino outfit bragged on its website... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 06, 2011

Apple Roars About Mac OS X Lion

Apple today announced that the next major version of its operating system -- Mac OS X Lion -- will ship in July for $29 and will only be available as a download (4GB) in the Mac App Store. That's substantially less than the normal selling price of $129, though it won't be offered as a boxed retail package. What Lion will bring to the table... Read more...