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What does this have to do with the (incorrect) claim that Apple kickstarted the "App on a phone" market? I was just debunking this claim. Android 1.0 went to

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• tzs 12y ago
  Android 1.0 went to market in September 2008, two months AFTER Apple's App Store opened to the public, so it is clear Android 1.0 going to market did not have anything to do with Jobs changing his mind. Jobs changed his mind sometime before October 17, 2007. We know this because it was on that date that Apple published a note in his name announcing that they were going to allow third party apps and that the SDK would be available by February 2008 [1]. At that date in the Android world, Android only existed as an alpha within Google, and had not yet even been officially announced. It wasn't announced until the first beta, November 5, 2007. The first Android SDK was released November 12, 2007. By the end of the first weekend that the Apple App Store was available, they had 10 million downloads from real customers. By that weekend in the Android world, there were 0 apps in the hands of real customers. So yeah, it was indeed the Apple App Store that kickstarted the "App on a phone" market. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20071020040652/http://www.apple.com/hotnews http://web.archive.org/web/20071020040652/http://www.apple.c...