The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will feature both paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities. Apple on Thursday said its Mac App Store will go live on January 6.

By bringing the popular App Store experience to Mac OS X, Apple hopes web users on various Mac computers will be able to discover, install and update Mac applications far more easily than ever. The Mac App Store lets you browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, view staff favorites, search categories and read customer ratings and reviews. Like on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, a user can purchase, download and install apps in just one click and start using them immediately. Purchased apps can run on all of personal Macs and updates are delivered directly through the Mac App Store so it’s easy to keep all apps up to date. The Mac App Store is available to Mac OS X Snow Leopard users as a free download through Software Update.

Mac developers set the price for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees.

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