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Citation? This contradicts everything I’ve seen on the matter.

• finiteseries 5y ago
  The article linked in the comment they’re replying to. According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, the tech guru was opposed to allowing third-party to run natively on iPhone… …Others in the know disagree with Isaacson's story and contend third-party apps were always on the iPhone roadmap; Jobs and company were simply not comfortable with releasing an SDK at launch. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-steve-jobs-resisted-apples-app-store-marks-10-years-of-third-party-innovation https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-st...
  • zarzavat 5y ago
    Apple put a lot of effort into the UIKit API and fixing the deficiencies of AppKit, I'm not sure why they would have done this if they didn't intend to later release it.
  • mthoms 5y ago
    Sorry, what I meant was, who are the "others in the know"?