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Obviously, most apis themselves were done at the iphone launch, and wouldn't take much more work. The rest, all the infrastructure needed to have a working app
by geon 10y ago
Obviously, most apis themselves were done at the iphone launch, and wouldn't take much more work.
The rest, all the infrastructure needed to have a working app store would be a much more substantial project. It is this part that would be difficult to build in a single year, and would have had to be in the pipeline when Jobs made his statement.
- chc 10y agoApple already had the iTunes Store and a lot of very mature associated infrastructure. The App Store was built on that, and a year sounds like a pretty generous estimate for the project.