File:Apple Software Dispatch The Mac App Store from 1993!

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We're all used to app stores on our computers and mobile devices, powered by the Internet. But there was an equivalent in the early 90s designed for a less connected era.

Sources: Editorial about Apple #1 PC manufacturer: "Amid price war, there is a light at the end of the tunnel", Stewart Alsop, InfoWorld. July 27, 1992. Video from 1992 sales presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc_WWRwdXRg Apple product lineup image: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallerytextindex.html Sculley/Spindler internal video from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZuh-uDbf2U Apple IIe image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Apple_IIe_running_ProDOS.jpg Computer industry growth article: "Strong growth predicted for high-tech industry", Gary Anthes. Computerworld, January 18.1993. Windows 3.1 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tZjpsTHCPI Windows 95 launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0CRWAz09r8 Macintosh factory video (part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjyh2Fhnuk Macintosh factory video (part 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nG2Uo5avM Power Mac 7100 image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Macintosh_7100-80_-_front.jpg Apple Icon Garden image: https://betaknowledge.nearfuturelaboratory.com/post/40937149436/the-apple-icon-garden CompUSA store photo: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-miss-compusa.121409/ MacConnection 1994 catalog: https://vintageapple.org/catalogs/ USRobotics modem photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Modem-usr-courier-v34-front-online.jpg Apple 1994 sales figures, Computerworld, Jan. 22, 1996. Software Dispatch vol. 1 images: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55324-apple-software-dispatch-from-1994/&do=findComment&comment=587366 AppleCD 300 advertisement: Popular Science, December 1993. Software Dispatch news articles: Computerworld, October 11, 1993; InfoWorld, October 11, 1993; Macworld, May 1994; PC Magazine, December 21, 1993. Rainbow software dongle image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Dongle_Sentinel_Microphar_for_Logitrace-5958.jpg On Hand Japanese edition image: https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r307436539 SoftBank Ibaraki store photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG Apple Infinite Loop image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Applecomputerheadquarters.jpg

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