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[illiarian]

People are also forgetting it was better than the status quo at the time (IIRC 70% cut to telecom companies)

[seventhtiger → illiarian]

No it was just continuing the status quo. Apple explicitly said they used Valve's Steam as a reference for monetizing a digital app store.

[illiarian → seventhtiger]

As far as mobile app stores went Valve's model wasn't the status quo. However, Valve showed that what they were doing was working.

[heavyset_go → illiarian]

You could run whatever apps you wanted on phones.

[pjmlp → heavyset_go]

Nope, on J2ME and Symbian phones, unless you had a developer kit, you would run what the telecom provider made available on their stores, reachable via WAP or SMS download links.