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by toyg 5359 days ago
The iTunes Store came with the original iPod, and it was an integral part of Apple's strategy.

You probably meant the App Store, which wasn't on the very first iPhone and was, in fact, a bit of a lucky strike. Jobs didn't want anyone installing anything on the phone (classic Apple control-freakery at its finest), so he insisted for months after launch that extensibility would come exclusively from sandboxed web-applications. Eventually they did release a SDK and establish a process to publish apps, but only after encountering overwhelming demand.

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No, the iTunes store came in 2003, two years after the iPod.
I did mean the AppStore, thanks for califying!