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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 t
by 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 agoThen 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.