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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by kjakm on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:12AM (#23573618)
I think if you think back to 2007/8 and people had the choice of Android with millions of apps and a higher priced iOS ecosystem which only has some high profile apps so few people would choose iOS that it would quickly become a waste of money for FB/Twitter/MS to build their apps for it and it would die.
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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by majewsky on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:37AM (#23574946)
In 2007/8 people were buying iPhones despite them not having an app store at all.
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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by kjakm on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#23574955)
There was no App Store for the first year, which I believe is a time when Android didn't exist. An app-less iPhone would not be able to compete with an app-store backed Android.
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