Jeff Johnson on Nostr: "Yes, the App Store was a hastily rewritten version of the system Apple used for ...

"Yes, the App Store was a hastily rewritten version of the system Apple used for iTunes, a decision that sealed the fate of Apple’s software platform as a hit-driven marketplace backed by systems designed for record companies to upload music."

I'm glad to see this acknowledged in the news media. It happens so rarely.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2525708/the-app-store-era-must-end-apples-already-got-the-solution.html