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How about Cydia, which predated AppStore by 2 years?
by catmistake 6y ago
How about Cydia, which predated AppStore by 2 years?
- n42 6y agoit amazes me that people still seem to think that the app store was some reactionary response to jail breaking and not a calculated move. the iPhone was launched in June 2007, the app store in July 2008. Apple did not build an entire developer SDK and software marketplace within 1 year as some afterthought. those wheels had been in motion before we knew what the iPhone was. if Apple had launched the app store with the iPhone, it would have had no where near as big of an impact as it did by waiting just a year. they created the demand first. and no, Cydia was launched 5 months before the app store.
- catmistake 6y agoI was suggesting nothing of the kind. But certainly it wasn't the other way around, either. My only point is that the AppStore is not the Second Coming. It is and it only is a package manager. Just like all the others that came before it. And nothing more. It is not some searing example of genius. It is one package manager among countless. That it includes a payment system is an irrelevant detail. What Apple did that is amazing is creating a community of developers out of nothing and gave them excellent tools to create software for their platform. It seemed overnight that the ocean of Windows applications, mostly due to obsession with backward compatibility, was no longer all that special.