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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Apple's official Mac App Store for OS X reportedly crossed the five-figure mark this week, as the digital storefront now has more than 10,000 applications available.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nThe achievement was noted &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/242962/10-000-applications-sur-le-mac-app-store\"&amp;gt;on Friday&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; by French Apple site &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;MacGeneration&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, which uses its own tracking system to analyze App Store content. According to their data, the milestone was reached, although Apple has not publicly announced it.\r\n\r\nThe Mac App Store launched in &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/06/apple_releases_mac_os_x_10_6_6_with_mac_app_store.html\"&amp;gt;early 2011&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; with more than 1,000 applications, including Apple's iWork suite of software. Its &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/04/apple_to_release_mac_os_x_lion_through_mac_app_store_sources.html\"&amp;gt;most high profile&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; release to date was OS X 10.7 Lion, which launched last summer exclusively on the Mac App Store.\r\n\r\nTo date, Lion remains the most popular and highest grossing paid application available on the Mac App Store. Its successor, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, will also hit the Mac App Store &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/22/inside_os_x_108_mountain_lion_apple_overhauls_software_updates_app_store.html\"&amp;gt;this summer&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.\r\n\r\nThe lack of availability on Lion on a traditional disc marked a shift for Apple, which conducted a &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/20/apple_initiates_mass_discontinuation_of_boxed_retail_software.html\"&amp;gt;mass discontinuation&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of boxed retail software last July. Products no longer available in a boxed form include iWork, Aperture, and iLife.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/appstore-120427.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"800\" height=\"233\" alt=\"App Store\" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nEarlier this month, Apple also &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/16/apple_removes_free_trials_of_iwork_aperture_refers_users_to_mac_app_store.html\"&amp;gt;stopped offering&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; free trials of the iWork suite and Aperture from its website. Users looking to download the trials are now directed to view the paid software on the Mac App Store. \r\n\r\nThe Mac App Store has been seen as a crucial part of Apple's strategy going forward with Mac hardware, as the company looks to remove spinning disc drives from its &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/10/apple_to_disrupt_notebook_space_with_radically_redesigned_macbook_pros.html\"&amp;gt;next generation&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of MacBook Pros. The new MacBook Pros, which are expected to arrive within a matter of weeks, will borrow many design elements from Apple's ultraportable MacBook Air lineup."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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