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What was the first mobile app store?
Before the iPhone, phones could already download apps and games from mobile operators' own portals, so there is no single first. Apple's App Store opened in July 2008 with about 500 apps and made the app store a standard part of a smartphone. Android Market, now Google Play, followed in October 2008.
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Read more →There is no single first ERP. The term "enterprise resource planning" was coined by the research firm Gartner in 1990. ERP grew out of the material requirements planning (MRP) systems of the 1960s and 1970s, which planned materials for manufacturing and were later extended to finance, sales and the rest of the business.
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