How the Custom Ringtone Industry Paved the Way for the App Store — and Then Vanished
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10 min readJul 27, 2020
Before the iPhone, Venmo, or Spotify, there were ringtones. You might remember them fondly as those lo-fidelity sounds we used to communicate our highly refined music tastes every time someone called our cell. But ringtones were so much more than that. A billion-dollar industry silenced…
