Apple announced that the Mac App Store (Released Last Thursday) saw over one million downloads in its first day of business yesterday, marking a successful debut for the marketplace that currently offers over 1,000 free and paid applications for Mac OS X Snow Leopard users.

Apple announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, download and install them in just one step.

“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”

AppleInsider reports that the next version of Apple’s productivity suite, iWork ’11, is ready for launch but will likely debut alongside the company’s Mac App Store very early in 2011.

People familiar with the matter say development of iWork ’11 wrapped up this fall and the software was initially slated for an introduction alongside iLife ’11 last month, but was held back at the last minute for undisclosed reasons.

Apple’s revised plans currently call for the company to launch the new productivity suite alongside the forthcoming Mac App Store, these same people say. The applications included in the bundle — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — will be available for purchase individually when the Mac App Store debuts.

According to the report, Apple is still deciding whether to offer a retail box version of iWork ’11 or if it will be available exclusively through the Mac App Store.

Source : Apple Insider

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Apple proclaims that the App Store has surpassed 15,000 available applications and 500 million downloads. The milestones come just over six months after the App Store’s debut.

Apple last reported on December 5th, 2008 that they had surpassed 10,000 available applications and 300 million downloads, and the latest numbers demonstrate a significant acceleration in downloads when compared to previous milestone announcements.

Source : Apple

This weekend, Microsoft entered the iPhone market with their first application called ”Seadragon Mobile” [App Store Link]. The free application is a product of Microsoft Live Labs and offers iPhone users the ability to view ultra-high resolution images on your iPhone:

“Seadragon is designed to provide next-generation visual experiences, regardless of the size of the screen, size of the file or speed of your network. It’s already available on a number of platforms, including Microsoft Surface, and in Photosynth and Silverlight. Now we’re bringing that same graphical smoothness right to the iPhone in your pocket.“

Google App for the iPhone/iPod Touch now supports Voice Search, The new update of the app should be uploaded to the App store any time.

UPDATE: Now Available.

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Or search for “Google Earth” on the App Store from your iPhone 

Source: Apple.com