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People are also forgetting it was better than the status quo at the time (IIRC 70% cut to telecom companies)
by illiarian 3y ago
People are also forgetting it was better than the status quo at the time (IIRC 70% cut to telecom companies)
- heavyset_go 3y agoYou could run whatever apps you wanted on phones.
- pjmlp 3y agoNope, on J2ME and Symbian phones, unless you had a developer kit, you would run what the telecom provider made available on their stores, reachable via WAP or SMS download links.
- seventhtiger 3y agoNo it was just continuing the status quo. Apple explicitly said they used Valve's Steam as a reference for monetizing a digital app store.
- illiarian 3y agoAs far as mobile app stores went Valve's model wasn't the status quo. However, Valve showed that what they were doing was working.