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IOS software
- Steam (service)Steam, Valve's digital distribution platform for PC games, launched in September 2003 as something far more modest than what it would become: a software…
- Photos (Apple)Apple announced the discontinuation of iPhoto and Aperture in June 2014. This decision set a new direction for photo management on Mac systems.
- FacebookFacebook launched on the 4th of February 2004 from a Harvard dorm room, and within two decades it would be used by more than three billion people every month.
- TwitterIn March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first message from a service called twttr to a small group of Odeo employees. The prototype relied on Short Message…
- HBO MaxWarnerMedia announced its intention to launch a new streaming service on the 10th of October 2018. The initial plan called for three tiers and a late 2019…
- SpotifySpotify began not with a boardroom strategy but with a misheard word. When Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were choosing a name for their new company…
- Apple MusicApple Music arrived on the 30th of June 2015, in one hundred countries. The service debuted as an updated Music app on the iOS 8.4 update.
- TikTokTikTok was launched into the international market in September 2017, but the question of who actually controls it has never been fully settled.
- Amazon Prime VideoOn the 7th of September 2006, Amazon launched a service called Amazon Unbox in the United States. This early iteration allowed users to download movies and…
- InstagramInstagram reached one billion registered users in June 2018 - a number that took Facebook four years longer to achieve. The platform launched for iOS in…
- NetflixNetflix started not as a streaming service but as a company that mailed DVDs in red envelopes. Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded it on the 29th of…
- HidiveThe year 2017 marked a turning point for anime streaming when Hidive launched in June. This new service emerged from the ashes of Anime Network Online, which…
- MyspaceMyspace launched on the 1st of August, 2003, and within a few years became the most visited website in the United States, beating out Yahoo Mail and Google…
- StubHubEric Baker stood in a theater line, unable to buy tickets for The Lion King on Broadway. He needed a way to find secondhand seats without paying inflated…
- Peacock (streaming service)On the 14th of January 2019, NBCUniversal announced plans to launch an over-the-top streaming service in 2020. Bonnie Hammer led the division known as…
- Disney+Disney Streaming began as BAMTech in 2015 when it was spun off from MLB Advanced Media. Disney acquired a minority stake in this technology company for one…
- HuluHulu launched on the 29th of October 2007, and its name came from a pair of Mandarin Chinese phrases. The CEO at the time, Jason Kilar, explained that the…
- Microsoft TranslatorMicrosoft Translator began not as a product aimed at consumers, but as an internal research project buried inside Microsoft's own knowledge base.
- YouTubeYouTube uploaded its very first video on the 23rd of April 2005 - a clip called "Me at the zoo" showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- DiscordDiscord was built to solve a problem its founder could not stop running into. Jason Citron, while running a game development studio, kept watching his team…
- CrunchyrollCrunchyroll launched on the 14th of May 2006 as a pirate site. It hosted East Asian shows subtitled by fans, operating entirely outside the law.
- Paramount+On the 28th of October 2014, CBS Corporation introduced a new service called CBS All Access. This platform marked the first over-the-top offering from an…
- FunimationFunimation started not in a boardroom but in a conversation between two relatives. In the early 1990s, a Japanese-born businessman named Gen Fukunaga…
- Google PhotosGoogle announced Google Photos in May 2015 as a standalone service spun off from its social network, Google+. The company had launched Google+ to compete…
- SiriSiri was not born inside Apple. The voice assistant that would come to inhabit hundreds of millions of iPhones started life at SRI International, the…
- SnapchatSnapchat launched on the 8th of July 2011 under the name Picaboo, and the core idea was almost recklessly simple: what if the photos you sent just vanished?
- Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance sits at the center of how tens of millions of people track their money. By May 2024, the site counted approximately 150 million monthly active…