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> I think the way they set it up as a "Store" was very clever in making it seem completely normal The App Store was not a business innovation by Apple to set e
by jdminhbg 3y ago
> I think the way they set it up as a "Store" was very clever in making it seem completely normal
The App Store was not a business innovation by Apple to set expectations, it's how all cell phone software that preceded it worked. Apple's change was to lower the fees and open up access to everyone.
- hamandcheese 3y agoGeneral computing on a mobile device was never mainstream, or even common, before the iPhone. Smartphones are much closer to laptops than pre-smart phones, IMO.
- jdminhbg 3y agoSure, but that doesn't change the point. The App Store exists as it is because the iPhone was a phone and that's how things were done on phones. Apple didn't create the model, they just continued it.
- hamandcheese 3y agoComputer vs phone definitely changes the point. The iPhone is a computer, but unlike past computers it introduced a walled-garden App Store. Also, software on phones before the iPhone was also gate-kept by carriers. Apple was not maintaining the status quo. They were changing it for their benefit.
- zer00eyz 3y ago>> Apple's change was to lower the fees and open up access to everyone. Everyone seems to have forgotten that ring tones cost an arm and a leg, that "apps" were awful (I know I designed one)... You had to pay to get your app on a phone even if it was free.