The Mac App Store – featuring apps in categories such as education, games and lifestyle – will open on 6 January, says Apple Apple’s experiment in bringing the iPhone experience of an “app store” to its computers will begin on Thursday 6 January, the company said today – neatly timing it to distract from any goings-on or keynotes that might be happening at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is expected to give a keynote address . Apple says that “the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever” – and will do it across 90 (out of the world’s 190-odd) countries from launch, featuring paid and free apps in categories such as education, games, graphics & design, lifestyle, productivity and utilities. Apple announced the scheme at its ” Back to the Mac event ” in October, but didn’t give a date for when it would offer the store

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Apple to launch its new Mac App Store next month