Hans-Christoph Steiner
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I'm working on a small project on the history of built-in "app stores". My hypothesis is that this idea actually originates from distros like . That was my personal experience of it. I started using computers in 1981 and have used DOS, Apple ][, C64, OS/2, GEM, Windows, MacOS, NeXTSTEP, MacOSX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and many distros starting with Slackware. I know the history of Debian, iOS, and Android well. Anyone have any other examples I might have missed?

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cobratbq - cranky-by-design  

@eighthave do you mean why the 'app-stores' exist? Part of it is ease of use, one place to look, consistent experience, I would guess.

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VZ  

@eighthave AFAIR back then the distribution repositories looked like a natural follow up on FTP archives (Simtel etc), although there were, of course, important differences between them.

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