App Store

Apple’s digital marketplace for discovering, purchasing, and distributing apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and other platforms. It combines app listings, payment processing, editorial features, and review rules.

App Review: Apple’s process for checking submitted apps against its safety, privacy, performance, and business rules. Review determines whether an app can appear in the store and which features it may offer.
iPhone OS 2: The 2008 iPhone operating-system release that added third-party native applications and the App Store. Its launch brought the App Store to the original iPhone software platform.
Mac App Store: Apple’s marketplace for discovering and downloading apps for macOS. It adapts the App Store model to Mac software distribution.
Google Play: Google’s official digital marketplace for apps and other content on Android devices. It is the closest large-scale counterpart to Apple’s centralized mobile app marketplace.
Mobile app economy: The global economic activity built around creating, distributing, and monetizing applications for mobile devices. The App Store helped establish the marketplace model at the center of this economy.
App Store Connect: Apple’s web service for managing app submissions, metadata, pricing, analytics, and releases. Developers use it to submit and manage the listings that populate the store.
Steve Jobs: The Apple cofounder and chief executive who led the company during the App Store’s creation and launch. Jobs publicly introduced the store as part of Apple’s strategy for third-party iPhone software.
Apple Arcade: Apple’s subscription service offering a curated catalog of games across Apple devices. It distributes games through a subscription catalog linked to Apple’s app ecosystem.
Sideloading: Installing software from sources other than a device’s official app marketplace. It bypasses the App Store’s listing and review process where platform rules permit it.
App Store commission: The fee Apple charges on certain app sales and in-app purchases distributed through its store. These fees shape developer revenue and disputes over the store’s business model.

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