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Anyone that remembers history correctly will remember when the iPhone was first released Apple wanted to make ALL the apps. Then developers started jailbreakin

Anyone that remembers history correctly will remember when the iPhone was first released Apple wanted to make ALL the apps. Then developers started jailbreaking the phones, adding their own apps to them. The Appstore wasn't obvious for Apple, and it was only after developer backlash that they changed their tune. So you can say that Apple did everything but the truth is that the success of the iPhone is from the COMBINED effort of Apple, and the work of developers in the community.

imwillofficial 5y ago
“The Appstore wasn't obvious for Apple, and it was only after developer backlash that they changed their tune.“ This is not “remembering history correctly” at all. Apple didn’t have an SDK ready, and tried to sell the shit sandwich of Web Apps as a stopgap.
- LouisSayers 5y ago
  >Apple didn’t have an SDK ready, and tried to sell the shit sandwich of Web Apps as a stopgap. And how exactly do you know that it always was their intent to make an SDK for third party developers? From https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-iphone-no-third-party-native-apps/ https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-... "The App Store came later and apparently as a reaction to jailbreakers and developer backlash."
  - imwillofficial 5y ago
    That’s an editorial, and they floated the eventual App Store idea in dev talks early on.