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>> Do you know how apps got on phones before the App Store? Umm, yeah, I do. Handango and manual sync. While Handango wasn't as frictionless as the App stores

>> Do you know how apps got on phones before the App Store? Umm, yeah, I do. Handango and manual sync. While Handango wasn't as frictionless as the App stores are today, it was popular, multiplatform and had a pretty good selection.

josh2600 13y ago
Handango did not have as large a distribution as pre-loads... Pre-loads were multi-platform. You're talking about this from a consumer viewpoint, I'm talking about it from the commercial viewpoint. In aggregate the pre-loads market was MUCH larger than Handango.
- slantyyz 13y ago
  Sure, but when you talk about "apps" as people know them on today's smartphones, i.e., the ones people actually pay for from the App stores, Handango was the main place to go back then.
wallflower 13y ago
As a counterpoint, before the iPhone came out, it was standard practice to wipe the PDA Phone (usually Windows Mobile) when doing a software upgrade. Can you imagine the average consumer dealing with this engineer-designed nonsense? My boss at the time was persuaded to try a Windows Mobile phone by a very adamant - she lasted a month. Google search for "Caution: Installing this update will delete all the information on your PDA Phone." Contrast this with OTA upgrades of iOS 7 and 30% adoption within 24 hours and the Android 4.2 OTA upgrades (global adoption rate obviously lower) ...
- slantyyz 13y ago
  > As a counterpoint, before the iPhone came out, it was standard practice to wipe the PDA Phone (usually Windows Mobile) when doing a software upgrade. While you make a valid point of the state of OS upgrades at that time, I'm not sure this is a counterpoint to where and how people got apps.
  - wallflower 13y ago
    I agree. More of a parallel - getting apps now is on device OTA - before it required a tether to a desktop. Pure mobile is cloud + identity + device.
    - slantyyz 13y ago
      Funny thing - I still buy all my mobile apps from iTunes and Google Play on the desktop. Old habits die hard.

josh2600 13y ago

Handango did not have as large a distribution as pre-loads... Pre-loads were multi-platform. You're talking about this from a consumer viewpoint, I'm talking about it from the commercial viewpoint. In aggregate the pre-loads market was MUCH larger than Handango.

slantyyz 13y ago
Sure, but when you talk about "apps" as people know them on today's smartphones, i.e., the ones people actually pay for from the App stores, Handango was the main place to go back then.

wallflower 13y ago

As a counterpoint, before the iPhone came out, it was standard practice to wipe the PDA Phone (usually Windows Mobile) when doing a software upgrade. Can you imagine the average consumer dealing with this engineer-designed nonsense? My boss at the time was persuaded to try a Windows Mobile phone by a very adamant - she lasted a month. Google search for "Caution: Installing this update will delete all the information on your PDA Phone." Contrast this with OTA upgrades of iOS 7 and 30% adoption within 24 hours and the Android 4.2 OTA upgrades (global adoption rate obviously lower) ...

slantyyz 13y ago
> As a counterpoint, before the iPhone came out, it was standard practice to wipe the PDA Phone (usually Windows Mobile) when doing a software upgrade. While you make a valid point of the state of OS upgrades at that time, I'm not sure this is a counterpoint to where and how people got apps.
- wallflower 13y ago
  I agree. More of a parallel - getting apps now is on device OTA - before it required a tether to a desktop. Pure mobile is cloud + identity + device.
  - slantyyz 13y ago
    Funny thing - I still buy all my mobile apps from iTunes and Google Play on the desktop. Old habits die hard.