Apple is allegedly readying its Mac App Store for a Dec. 13 launch, wrote a blogger on Appletell Sunday. And despite Apple's CEO Steve Jobs promising a launch within the next 90 days back in October, this is still considered pretty ahead of schedule.

Perhaps for expediting the process of application submission as the date drawers near, there are two things interested developers should know. According to Apple's developer site, developers are asked to not submit demos, trials or betas for review, citing, "Your website is the best place to provide demos, trial versions, or betas of your software for customers to explore. The apps you submit to be reviewed for the Mac App Store should be fully functional, retail versions of your apps."

In addition, Apple discussed file system usage requirements for Mac apps. Apple said: "To promote a more consistent user experience, Mac apps submitted to the App Store must write files in the appropriate location. This avoids users being confused when applications store data in unexpected areas of the file system (e.g., storing databases in the user's Documents folder or storing files in the user's Library folder that are not recognizably associated with your application."

However ambitious a release date of Dec. 13 may be, most responses on the Appletell blog were of excitement, while one remained skeptical.

"I’m curious to see how much time will be required for all those applications to go through the approval process at apple… Either they will go with just a few developers (I doubt that will happen) or they will put everything on there without approval…I doubt the store will be available before january… too much to do still," wrote one respondent.