My first download was the newest iPhoto so I could finish a project.

Well, ok that,s not quite true. It was Angry Birds, then iPhoto.  But who’s counting. Other than the person who was waiting for the project that I didn’t get done because I was playing Angry Birds that is.

The MacAppStore is a great option. It doesn’t have everything but it’s where I check first. As long as it STAYS an option I’ll be happy. If Apple tries to make the Mac a walled garden like iOS then I’d be miffed. But I don’t see that happening.

As impressive as these stats are, Florian Meuller poured cold water on them yesterday by tweeting that Android would surpass these figures in the ‘foreseeable’ future, though not specifying when that would be.

I continue to be bemused by amount of time and attention devoted to these near meaningless metrics. Don’t misunderstand, patronage and consumer behaviour is important. Comparing isolated statistics in the absence of other important indicators - in a word “context” - is not, neither is it instructive.

With the Mac App Store (TM), does one Download equal one Sale? You can fool most of the people some of the time…