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Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf... by brookst on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:46PM (#34253040)
Sounds interesting. Source?
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Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf... by bluk on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:12PM (#34253339)
Amongst others, probably referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64

and

https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-d...

Whether it's revisionist history or not, there were later claims that Steve Jobs knew they couldn't have a native platform ready when the iPhone was first announced so they stalled for time to a) get the App Store ready and b) see what types of app ideas were popular to get those platform APIs finalized. The interim solution was web apps with recommendations to look at the Dashboard APIs in Mac OS X (which were basically web apps).

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Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf... by detourdog on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:07PM (#34253291)
After the iPhone but before the App Store I was at a developer event in NYC. If you comb the internet for the developer talk at that time you can see it alluded to. In fact Apple still insists that the web is a perfectly good place for these not App Store suitable.

Source not really it was a vibe at the time.

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Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf... by kefka_p on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:56PM (#34253173)
I don’t know anything about an AppStore alternative but I do seem to recall a presentation or two mentioning using Dashboard widgets as a route for development.
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Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf... by detourdog on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:38PM (#34253632)
Yes, App Store didn’t exist and that was the talk.
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