After The New York Times, it's now the Financial Times' turn to publish its take on the App Store.
Besides the usual, "best thing since sliced bread" part, the piece focuses on the apparent surprise of how much success the App Store has generated. In their opinion, even the announcement of the App Store was not as enthusiastic as the iPhone's launch. Steve Jobs described it simply as a "pretty cool" way to develop and spread apps.
“We had no idea there would be 2bn downloads by October,” says Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy, manager of the then $100m fund. “Most people within Apple, if you had told them it would be a fifth of that by now, they would have been pretty happy.”
