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by jackstraw14 784 days ago
Well, my point was that the first iPhone set a standard for smartphones that wasn't there before. After iPhone v1, people knew that "apps" were how things were going to be packaged and sold in the App Store and other app stores. It was better than anything else at the time like the Vision Pro seems to be also.
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The App Store didn't launch until a year after the iPhone.

Originally, it was 'Write web apps that run in Safari'

Sadly, because that original web app vision likely would have prevented App Store revenue from twisting corporate priorities.