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How can you find that convincing? I think it's too far to claim that if it weren't for Apple, we wouldn't have smartphones with paid apps.
by blueboo 7y ago
How can you find that convincing? I think it's too far to claim that if it weren't for Apple, we wouldn't have smartphones with paid apps.
- kevingadd 7y agoSmartphones with paid apps predated the iPhone by years. Apple just were the first ones to really nail the whole App Store model on mobile.
- rstupek 7y agoAnd my recollection was it wasn't easy to sell apps on those phones without the phone ISP gatekeepers getting involved
- enos_feedler 7y agoI'm saying if it weren't for Apple's closed loop, you wouldn't have a fragmentation free channel to billions of prospective customers. This is clearly getting even stronger with SwiftUI's ability to target across their product space (TV, Watch, Phone, Tablet, Computer). I am talking merely from a technical one, leaving aside the obvious financial disparity between Apple and the "other guys" (which I don't even think you can group into "Android" at this point it's such a mess)