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How could you forget the first? Brew! Sept 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for_Wireless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runt

How could you forget the first? Brew! Sept 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for_Wireless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for... "an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones (mostly with the similar specifications of a mid to high-end mobile phones) but not in smartphones. Developed in 1999, as a platform for wireless applications on CDMA-based mobile phones, it debuted in September 2001."

sergeykish 6y ago
Wow, code signing. Not much CDMA in my country, J2ME here. Why limit to manufacturer? Third party store is even cooler, found one portal [1]: > Downloads: > Since Mar.31, 2004: 4,189,079 > Last week: 209,952 Possible trace: > On-Device Portal technology emerged in 2000 [2] [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20050429230232/http://www.getjar.com/software/ http://web.archive.org/web/20050429230232/http://www.getjar.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Device_Portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Device_Portal
bredren 6y ago
Wow, I completely forgot about this one. I remember this on my flip phone. While a nice bit of nostalgia, IIRC the fees and royalties were very high and the administration to get something submitted was not in the same ballpark of the earliest Apple App Store.