This is the story of how a Salesforce CEO gifted Steve Jobs appstore.comWhat you need to know
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff met with Steve Jobs in 2003 and the pair discussed cloud services.
After that conversation, Benioff came up with an app store for Salesforce and registered the URL.
When Apple announced App Store, Benioff gave the URL to Jobs.
Everything worked out in the end.
You probably already know that appstore.com redirects to App Store or iTunes depending on the device you're using, but that wasn't always the case. After a meeting with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2003, it was Salesforce and CEO Marc Benioff who owned it.
But after his initial plans changed Benioff was left with a URL he didn't need. Until 2008 when Apple announced App Store.
The whole story of how that came about is in Benioff's new book, Trailblazer, with TechCrunch sharing the story.
In an interview last year around Salesforce's 20th anniversary, company CTO and co-founder Parker Harris told me that the idea for the app store came out of a meeting with Steve Jobs three...
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This is the story of how a Salesforce CEO gifted Steve Jobs appstore.com
