App Store
Tienda de aplicaciones (App Store)
- Date
- 2008 · confidence high
- Place
- Apple, Cupertino, California, United States
- Credited to
- Apple; Google Play (Android Market) the same year
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A centralised marketplace of downloadable applications with built-in payment and platform review. It created a developer industry and a new model of software distribution.
What it led to
- The app economy and mobile start-ups (Uber, Instagram)
- Platform power over developers and antitrust lawsuits (Epic, EU)
- Microtransactions and subscriptions as a business model
Built on
- iPod and iTunes Store2001-2003
- Modern smartphone (iPhone)2007
- online software distribution
Made possible
- mobile apps
- platform economy
- free-to-play games with purchases