6 Pandora
When the App Store first launched in 2008, there weren’t very many options for streaming music over the internet. Spotify was still in its nascent phases, and Apple Music wouldn’t be an option until its launch seven years later. For most people, there was one clear winner: Pandora.
The first Pandora app did essentially what it does now. It puts together “radio stations” based on a single piece of music, an artist, or a genre. But what Pandora did at the time was pretty extraordinary. More than anything else, the app may have foreshadowed the rise of music streaming and the demise of legacy media like CDs — and even MP3s.