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> the closest approximation to the App Store I can think of in the previous decades were game platforms like Nintendo and Sega I think a closer approximation w
by thewebcount 7y ago
> the closest approximation to the App Store I can think of in the previous decades were game platforms like Nintendo and Sega
I think a closer approximation was actual stores. If you wanted to sell in CompUSA, BestBuy, or CircuitCity, you had to go through a distributer. I think the big one most of them used was called Navaro or something like that? If you were a huge company like Microsoft, they would take a 30% cut of your sales. If you were anyone else, they would take a 50% cut. And you also had physical costs like boxes, printing, manuals, disks (floppy or CD), etc. That you can now do all of this from your own home and pay only 30% is a frickin' miracle!