There was a time when opening the App Store felt like opening a box of possibilities.
That probably sounds ridiculous now. We have access to millions of apps, most of which can be downloaded in seconds, updated automatically and, increasingly, do far more than the little pieces of software we were playing with back in 2008 ever could.
And yet, I still miss the old App Store.
(more…)There was a time when discovering a great iPhone app felt like discovering a secret.
The App Store was still finding its feet. Developers were experimenting with what an app could actually be, Apple was figuring out how to curate this strange new ecosystem, and the rest of us were spending far too much time tapping through pages of tiny icons looking for something worth downloading.
And somewhere in the middle of all that was AppChase.net.
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