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The comments in this thread are pulling this idea apart, but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple
by igornadj 5y ago
The comments in this thread are pulling this idea apart, but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple created the market singlehandedly.
How far this extends into the current day is up for debate, and how much rent keeping Apple should be allowed to do, sure, but being dismissive of the instrumental role Apple played in the past and to this day is turning a blind eye.
- actuator 5y ago> but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple created the market singlehandedly. Umm.. this is some serious revision of the history. - People did pay for apps. I along with plenty of other devs happily paid for Sublime Text while not going through an app store. - There have been app stores that predate 'iOS App Store' like the Steam store, people paid for apps in it as well. It is infact cross platform and competes with other app stores. Apple did not invent app distribution or the concept of paid apps.