The Many App Stores Before the App Store
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akgj7j/the-many-app-stores-before-the-app-store
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
How much credit does Apple deserve for introducing its App Store concept to mainstream consumers? I mean, how obvious is the idea, anyway?