Why didn't Microsoft, back in the 90s, have an app store that businesses had to pay for to sell Windows applications in?
I mean, it's certainly not for lack of business insight. And you don't need the internet to sell applications.
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I mean, it's certainly not for lack of business insight. And you don't need the internet to sell applications.
But it took until 93-94 for Windows to actually become dominant enough to have such leverage, some argue that this only really happened with Windows 95. Since it was an open ecosystem for almost a decade at that point, changing was hard.
The Apple AppStore was different, it was launched after the iPhone shipped 13 million units and "only allowed web apps".