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		coldtea on March 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (... >People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone And they rightly forget them -- they were awful, over-expensive crap. $10 for some BS casual game, $30 for a TODO app etc. And don't get me started on the Java ME crap.

seestheday on March 18, 2014 [–]

I think that more importantly they were either run by carriers or crippled by carriers.

iPhone changed the whole carrier/manufacturer/customer dynamic for the better (this is coming from a diehard BlackBerry user).

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