> Pretty bold of Apple to push it so prominently onto every Mac user's Dock as part of a point update to the operating system.

I hope you make just bucket loads of cash. However, I wouldn't call it pretty bold. I would call it "fucking obnoxious." (Also, and totally off-topic, why does Apple keep insisting that I restart my damn machines for dinky-ass upgrades like this?)

Because it's an entire OS update. It includes not just the Mac App Store app, but all the underlying functionality to enable it.

I also have a few titles in the mix. On the game charts, currently #14 (Blush), #59 (Crane Wars), #61 (Off-Road Velociraptor Safari), and #107 (Time Donkey).

We're always very open with our numbers--I'll post initial results as soon as I have them. I shipped everything with our Blurst accounts for leaderboards/achievements/etc, so I should be able to infer some ballpark figures before official numbers tonight. Will post to http://technology.blurst.com and http://twitter.com/mwegner

Put an email address or twitter in your profile, so we can follow you up on that...

I think Turtledoveland is a fun app. Is it possible to sell a screensaver through the Mac App Store?

Nope -- apps have to be self-contained .app bundles, and it's not permitted to write anything into shared operating system folders (which would be necessary to install a screensaver).

Apple is strictly enforcing that rule, too. My app was at first rejected for violating it. The specific reason given was: The application is creating files or writing to </Library/Preferences/com.apple.mediaio.DeviceSettings.plist> and <~/Library/Images>

It turns out that my app had nothing to do with this -- the responsible party was the IKPictureTaker class in ImageKit, which I was using to provide the "take a photo" functionality.

To Apple's credit, they made it very easy to email a real person about the rejection. When I explained that ImageKit is responsible, the rejection was rescinded within a day.