DavidRon wrote: You give Apple too much credit. Handmark had an app store for Palm devices nearly a decade before Apple, and years before the iPhone even existed. Certainly, Apple got the idea from the Palm platform. Additionally, since this is being posted in the Java Developer's Journal, you should give credit to GetJar which was around 1/2 a decade before the Apple application store.
Additionally, application stores have existed on non-mobile platforms for years as well such as Debian's synaptic....
Mar. 10, 2010 12:22 PM EST
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