Rumor: Mac App Store to launch Monday, December 13?

According to the website Appletell, Apple may be gearing up this week to launch the Mac App Store a week from today.

According to the site’s “insider source,” this move would give the Mac an extra boost moving into the final weeks of Christmas shopping.

A launch this early would be before the self-procliamed deadline of 90 days, which Apple set during the OS X Lion preview event. It is unclear if the Mac App Store will require 10.6.6 or not, which is still in development and hasn’t been shipped to customers yet.

So far, Apple hasn’t made any announcements on the Developer News page, or via its PR department.

Stephen Hackett, formerly a Lead Mac Genius at Apple, now spends his days running the IT department of a large non-profit in Memphis, TN. He writes about Apple, design and journalism at forkbombr.net. Like all twenty-somethings, you can find him on Twitter. Oh, and he has a dogcow tattoo.