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Spotify's historical revisionism insists that Apple didn't initially allow apps, but that's not true.

I minor issue, but you are wrong. Apple initially had zero intention of allowing native 3rd party apps. Jobs famously stated web apps could do anything native apps could and there was no need to allow developers to make native apps. Only after public outcry from Mac developers, and seeing the popularity of jailbreaking to install native apps did Apple shift gears and start work on the App Store.