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Re: App Store downloads pass one-billion mark

Gibson Tang — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:21:34 -0000

I still remember the eye popping comment by Steve Jobs about his reason for not letting 3rd party developers create apps for the iPhone as they do not want a rogue app taking down the west coast phone network. How things have changed.

Re: App Store downloads pass one-billion mark

MArk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:56 -0000

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

999,999,990!

Re: App Store downloads pass one-billion mark

Brandon Jones — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:03:02 -0000

I don't think Apple was ever reluctant to "open" (we'll use the term loosely) the iPhone. They were just publicly making the best of what they had with OS 1. You can bet they were already working on OS 2 APIs and the SDK long before v1 hit general release.