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by Thomas Houston on December 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM

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Mac fans will soon be toasting (as is their wont) the passing of Apple.com's Mac OS X Downloads section. In last night's e-mail to developers, Apple announced that the sluggish Web-based app repository will be shutting down on January 6th, 2011, and will be replaced by the brand new, dedicated Mac App Store app. We're not too choked up. The replacement store will finally introduce a search function to the mix, which should make it much easier to hunt down that required QuickTime update.

Tags: apple, mac, MacOsXDownloads, top, web

source: TUAW

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CarneyDec 21st 2010 11:49AM

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QuickTime, being built-in to the MacOS, has had its updates already covered by the System Update feature for the entire existence of MacOS X, and if I recall correctly, even before then, with MacOS 9.

You wouldn't use the App Store, then, to update your OS and its built-in apps.

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