News: 100 million downloads, Apple buying flash company Anobit, iTunes update, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 14 December 2011
Posted in Apple

The Mac App Store has hit the magical 100 million downloads mark, making Apple the largest software retailer in the US, at least according to The Loop. The Loop arrived at this conclusion based on the fact that NPD reported that sales of boxed software in the US reached 50 million copies — but not only is Apple (probably) the largest software retailer in the US, all of those 100 million downloads don't include Lion, updates to existing apps, nor downloads to other authorised Macs.

TechCrunch are saying Apple might be in talks to purchase an Israeli flash memory company, Anobit. The supposed acquisition will be something to the tune of $400-500 million, and will make Anobit the first non-software company acquisition since PA Semi, and the first acquisition in Israel.

Apple has released an update to iTunes, bringing the version numbers up to 10.5.2. There are fixes for iTunes Match, which isn't available in many countries outside of the US, and a fix for an audio distortion problem when playing or importing certain CDs.

OSXFUSE is the open-source replacement for the popular MacFUSE (which has been out of active development since 2009). The OSXFUSE website describes OSXFUSE as the drop-in replacement, and can also run in a compatibility mode for existing MacFUSE installations.

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