Wang: Early iPad App Store lacked business apps, allowing front-page ranking
Zee Wang · Count On Other People Being Lazier Than You · May 27, 2025 · at 15:59
Tech entrepreneur Zee Wang recounts launching his enterprise form app on the iPad App Store around 2010 when mobile enterprise software was sparse.
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“So we sat on we sat on app store, especially the iPad app store on the business business section of the iPad app store first page for a few months because there was none. There was none, no, no business apps on the iPad store.”
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