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> What people keep forgetting is the original iPhone had no App Store. It arrived one year later, in 2008: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple) h
by throw0101c 3y ago
> What people keep forgetting is the original iPhone had no App Store.
It arrived one year later, in 2008:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)
> People quickly forget the original 1st gen iPhone was, despite laying the foundation for some great technologies, hot garbage.
"Hot garbage" by what metric? Other phones introduced in 2007:
* https://mowned.com/top-mobile-devices/2007 https://mowned.com/top-mobile-devices/2007
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introduced_in_2007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introdu...
The Nokia N95 or RIM Curve 8320 were ranked higher by some folks:
* https://www.mobilegazette.com/2007-review-07x12x12.htm https://www.mobilegazette.com/2007-review-07x12x12.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20071214112358/http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6452_7-6600061.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071214112358/http://reviews.cn...
- xattt 3y ago> It arrived one year later, in 2008 I want to say that this was deliberate. The iPhone was a new product that needed the general population to adapt, and mental models around its use. An App Store at launch would have been hot garbage. Touch apps at that point were shittacular PocketPC apps. The HTML5/Web Apps recommended by Jobs were also deliberate in order to get developers to move toward formatting sites for mobile. This was 5D Chess.