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The Macs desktop widgets was considered as an alternative to an App Store. They would run on the existing iPhone.
by detourdog 4y ago
The Macs desktop widgets was considered as an alternative to an App Store. They would run on the existing iPhone.
- brookst 4y agoSounds interesting. Source?
- kefka_p 4y agoI don’t know anything about an AppStore alternative but I do seem to recall a presentation or two mentioning using Dashboard widgets as a route for development.
- detourdog 4y agoYes, App Store didn’t exist and that was the talk.
- detourdog 4y agoAfter the iPhone but before the App Store I was at a developer event in NYC. If you comb the internet for the developer talk at that time you can see it alluded to. In fact Apple still insists that the web is a perfectly good place for these not App Store suitable. Source not really it was a vibe at the time.
- bluk 4y agoAmongst others, probably referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64 and https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-dead-set-against-third-party-apps-for-the-iphone/ https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-d... Whether it's revisionist history or not, there were later claims that Steve Jobs knew they couldn't have a native platform ready when the iPhone was first announced so they stalled for time to a) get the App Store ready and b) see what types of app ideas were popular to get those platform APIs finalized. The interim solution was web apps with recommendations to look at the Dashboard APIs in Mac OS X (which were basically web apps).