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> - They pretend with a straight face like it was somehow impossible to sell software or reach customers before their magical store made it happen. I've never
by Angostura 5y ago
> - They pretend with a straight face like it was somehow impossible to sell software or reach customers before their magical store made it happen.
I've never heard them claim that. The claim is that for an appliance like a phone - rather than a general purpose computer - device reliability trumps all, including the ability for the consumer to run arbitrary code on the device.
- yoz-y 5y agoThey have claimed multiple times that before the App Store you had to get your programs from a brick and mortar store at a large commission, which justifies their 30%. Conveniently omitting that internet has already existed.
- jollins 5y agoThey have. See their responses to the Senate anti-trust panel. Also in numerous interviews.
- kalleboo 5y agohttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-antitrust-hearing-opening-statement-385233#Cook%20statement https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-antitrust-... > Opening statement from Apple CEO Tim Cook > When the App Store was created, the prevailing distribution options available to software developers at the time did not work well. Brick-and-mortar stores charged high fees and had limited reach. Physical media like CDs had to be shipped and were hard to update. > From the beginning, the App Store was a revolutionary alternative. > App Store developers set prices for their apps and never pay for “shelf space.” [...] > [Apple’s commissions] are vastly lower than the 50 to 70 percent that software developers paid to distribute their work before we launched the App Store.
- Grustaf 5y ago"Did not work well" is 100% true. It is not the same as "impossible".