• Mashable, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:41 AM

Lately, it seems like everyday we’re marking some app-related milestone. The latest feat comes from Apple and its Mac App Store, which just recorded its 100 millionth download less than a year after its inception. “Launched in January 2011, the Mac App Store was modeled after the iOS App Store, providing a single marketplace for all desktop applications for the Mac,” Mashable writes.

“Nearly all of the most popular applications for the Mac are now distributed through the Mac App Store, including the latest version of the Mac operating system itself, OS X Lion.” Boasts Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing: “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”

On the news, Apple also announced that the Mac App Store’s sister, the App Store, holds more than 500,000 apps, with users downloading 1 billion apps per month, and the total number of downloads more than 18 billion.

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