Re:Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost
by imwillofficial on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:13PM
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“The Appstore wasn't obvious for Apple, and it was only after developer backlash that they changed their tune.“
This is not “remembering history correctly” at all.
Apple didn’t have an SDK ready, and tried to sell the shit sandwich of Web Apps as a stopgap.
Re:Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost
by LouisSayers on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:23PM
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>Apple didn’t have an SDK ready, and tried to sell the shit sandwich of Web Apps as a stopgap.
And how exactly do you know that it always was their intent to make an SDK for third party developers?
From https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
"The App Store came later and apparently as a reaction to jailbreakers and developer backlash."
Re:Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost
by imwillofficial on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:46AM
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That’s an editorial, and they floated the eventual App Store idea in dev talks early on.
Then developers started jailbreaking the phones, adding their own apps to them.
The Appstore wasn't obvious for Apple, and it was only after developer backlash that they changed their tune.
So you can say that Apple did everything but the truth is that the success of the iPhone is from the COMBINED effort of Apple, and the work of developers in the community.