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I'm not so sure about that. From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007: “I don’t want people to think of this as a computer,” he said. “I thi

by tjmc 17y ago

I'm not so sure about that. From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007: “I don’t want people to think of this as a computer,” he said. “I think of it as reinventing the phone.” "We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers.” The iPhone, he insisted, would not look like the rest of the wireless industry. “These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”

CamperBob 17y ago
From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007 But the App Store was announced to the public only seven months after that, in June of 2008. If they did all that work in seven months, my resume will be on someone's desk at Apple by Monday. Seriously. I don't want to compete with any large companies that can move that fast. They win. No, the only reasonable conclusion is that you can't take Jobs at his word when he appears to rule something out.
- gcheong 17y ago
  Then again Apple already had the libraries for native app development because they were developing apps themselves. They already had iTunes. And you know what? The same people that approve iTunes music submissions also approve App Store submissions. Most of the pieces were in place - they just had to put them together. 7 months doesn't seem too long for a version 1 app store. Edit: And the question isn't really were they going to have an app store or not - they very well could have been thinking along those lines but reserving it only for software they themselves were going to create or with select partners - the question is whether they were going to open it up to general developers which I think they did not want to do.
Hexstream 17y ago
Arguing that an idea doesn't make sense and then doing just that a few months later is Steve Jobs' modus operandi.

by tjmc 17y ago

CamperBob 17y ago

From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007 But the App Store was announced to the public only seven months after that, in June of 2008. If they did all that work in seven months, my resume will be on someone's desk at Apple by Monday. Seriously. I don't want to compete with any large companies that can move that fast. They win. No, the only reasonable conclusion is that you can't take Jobs at his word when he appears to rule something out.

gcheong 17y ago
Then again Apple already had the libraries for native app development because they were developing apps themselves. They already had iTunes. And you know what? The same people that approve iTunes music submissions also approve App Store submissions. Most of the pieces were in place - they just had to put them together. 7 months doesn't seem too long for a version 1 app store. Edit: And the question isn't really were they going to have an app store or not - they very well could have been thinking along those lines but reserving it only for software they themselves were going to create or with select partners - the question is whether they were going to open it up to general developers which I think they did not want to do.

Hexstream 17y ago

Arguing that an idea doesn't make sense and then doing just that a few months later is Steve Jobs' modus operandi.