Apple Shares App Store Retrospective Ahead of 10th Anniversary

[macduke]

Interesting
He signed with only his first name
He probably answered bc he cared about the product
So he sent several answers to you?

I think he always replied with Steve. He was Steve Jobs, lol. Efficient! I replied to him and he had some of his top people contact me to sort it out from there on. I think he really understood the importance of the App Store for the future viability of the iPhone. They just didn’t have it ready the first year so they played it down. Just like they did the video iPod and other products.

 

[usarioclave]

Ten years with very little to no downtime. Amazing.

 

[VictorTango777]

No way. People knew from the start something like the App Store was coming. I recall talking with people about 3rd party apps while waiting in line for the original iPhone. Jobs pretty much never randomly implemented something overnight. The App Store was in the plans, it just wasn’t quite where they wanted it for the first iPhone. Like many features Apple continues to rollout, they may not be new but Apple does their best to get things right before releasing them.
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Or he was surveying interest for an already in development idea for 3rd party apps.

If all this is true, then why were there Apple fans actually arguing against having native 3rd party applications on the iPhone and arguing against having copy-paste? I wonder of any of those same people are in these forums today.

 

[jkruehne]

(…) …didn't have was "I'm Rich" which was this $1000 app. Anyone else remember that whole debacle? (…)

Yes, I never understood why this App was rejected, cause - as far as I remember - it just tells/describes the truth: no functionality, but for 999 (someone must be rich to purchase this: )
– and people who click on it just for fun with on tap purchase on.. well..

 

[fairuz]

When the iPhone was announced, Steve Jobs did make a point of saying you don't need an SDK to develop for the iPhone, just make web apps because they're just as good.

I'm pretty sure he changed his mind when they figured out how much money they could make.

What Steve Jobs said doesn't contradict the theory that they were already working on an SDK. He just said you can build apps with no SDK, which is true, not that there will be no SDK. I also Googled around for Jobs arguing against third-party apps entirely and couldn't find anything other than this quote. Maybe he was against it, but we can't tell.
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If all this is true, then why were there Apple fans actually arguing against having native 3rd party applications on the iPhone and arguing against having copy-paste? I wonder of any of those same people are in these forums today.

Because some Apple fans are wrong, and they don't get to put words into the CEO's mouth.

 

[fairuz]

Yes, I never understood why this App was rejected, cause - as far as I remember - it just tells/describes the truth: no functionality, but for 999 (someone must be rich to purchase this: )
– and people who click on it just for fun with on tap purchase on.. well..

Lol, all the kids who jailbroke their phones to pirate stuff immediately downloaded a copy of that app.