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> The Windows app store... Thank you for saying "app store" instead of "App Store". If you dictate this sentence on an iPhone it comes out as "The windows App

• robertoandred 6y ago
  Why do Apple haters insist on lying? Of course it capitalizes it.
• usaphp 6y ago
  > they won't capitalize the word "windows" even if it was preceded by the word "Microsoft" Typing Microsoft Windows from my iPhone. It does capitalize it properly...
  • joshmanders 6y ago
    Yup, iOS I believe learns your typings over time and chooses what you use the most. So if you talk about Windows a lot and capitalize it, it will start suggesting it, but if you talk about your house windows more, it'll lowercase it.
  • wayneftw 6y ago
    Yeah, but not when you dictate the same sentence. My main complaint is that they insist that they own "app store" when the courts already told them that they don't.
    • ndesaulniers 6y ago
      > the people that work for Apple are so petty Hyperbole. It's much more likely no one at Apple cares about this like you do, and it's just a simple bug; nothing malicious.
      • brnt 6y ago
        And we'll never know which it was... Which is the deeper point.
      • rpmisms 6y ago
        Never attribute to malice what can just as easily be attributed to incompetence (or convenient indifference, as the case may be).
        • wayneftw 6y ago
          Yeah sure. I suppose you’d also say that it’s simply incompetence that Apple refuses to open Google Maps, the most widely used map app, when I click on a link to somebody’s address in my contacts app. Oh and it just so happens that I can’t replace the Contacts app either. It’s nothing less than pure spiteful pettiness.
• bredren 6y ago
  What was the earliest prior art resembling the Apple App Store? (Eg curation, 3rd party publishing with royalty cuts, one-click install.) Was it Steam? Which first launched in 2003? Did Apple debut objectively novel behavior that made the App Store a thing? Perhaps the install flow, or maybe the developer submission flow? (Which was admittedly awful for a number of years)
  • numpad0 6y ago
    Symbian had mandatory signature checks and Nokia Signed/Symbian Signed program for privileged APIs, i-mode phones had “carrier official sites” program and Java app players to use with... That said, the idea of iOS and App Store that you don’t ever sideload, browse from PC or web browser, or handle .ipa directly, as an integrated whole, do feel novel to me.
  • nitrogen 6y ago
    Something similar but for music existed in pre-Vivendi MP3.com (whose founder later started Lindows which had an app store for Linux PCs in 2002), and a real world analog might be something like a consignment store.
  • sergeykish 6y ago
    App Store was obvious as Linux user. In Windows and Symbian users has to search for installer. Out of commercial looks like Valve was first. I've never seen Windows Marketplace. Nokia took so long to make obvious thing - you have to review and sign application by Nokia (Symbian 9.1, 2005 [0]), but host by yourself. Valve Steam - announced on March 22, 2002, released for beta testing the same day. [1] Windows Marketplace - announced on July 12, 2004, launched on October 12, 2004 [2]. Nokia Ovi - announced on 29 August 2007, public beta on 28 August 2008 [3]. iPhone App Store - opened on July 10, 2008 [4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Marketplace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Marketplace [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_(Nokia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_(Nokia) [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)
• manojlds 6y ago
  I get Microsoft windows app store on my Google.
  • fernandotakai 6y ago
    using google's keyboard, i get "Microsoft Windows app store"