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They were called applications or programs.... the big innovation was the walled garden store only from which you can install programs. Before that you went to the software developer 's website and downloaded the package
Apple did not invent the term "app", "app store", or the concept of an app store. There was an app store called App Store for NeXT in 1991 that Jobs knew about, and many similar systems in the intervening years.
The only thing different about Apple's app store was the restriction on users' ability to install apps from other sources.
Jobs was great at business, not at tech.
That's not true, he was part of the team that developed Apple Lisa and later on developed Macintosh. He probably did much more.
Steve Wozniak disagrees with you.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/07/steve-jobs-wasnt-a-good-engineer-had-to-learn-communication-sales-says-wozniak
Edit, adding another link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170106013315/http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code
"Woz
Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs."