As does thousands of other online stores but that doesn’t mean they are App Stores too.

> The lack of native apps was resolved within a year of the iphone launch with the second generation. Probably they weren't ready for native developers and freezing APIs.

You’re basically just reiterating what I said here but in more favourable language.

At the end of the day, public demand was for native apps and the App Store was born from that. So all I’m doing is making a throw away comment about how times have changed.

> And in fairness, Safari was pretty capable on iphone.

Oh it really was. At the time it was heads and shoulders above anything else’s available for portable devices.