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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by blibble on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:12PM (#45084274)
carriers had similar stores for j2me apps

on the original iphone the only "apps" you could have were websites, as apple hated the carrier approach

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by justsid on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:20PM (#45084356)
The “sweet solution” has long been debunked by the people who worked on the early iPhone OS software. The iPhone was always supposed to have apps, it just wasn’t ready yet. Heck, half the OS wasn’t ready either at launch or the MacWorld presentation.
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