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I'm simply point out that the App Store is, in fact, a less competitive environment than the web for the dissemination of information, which a lot of web applications, and iphone applications do. In order for those web apps to get discovered, I have to rely on Google for people to discover them (as well as good marketing and PR and all sorts of other things).

My mission is to get people information about members of congress wherever they're at.

But I, for instance, make web apps about members of congress. '- The Google results for 'congress' have no relationship whatsoever to 'congress' in the App Store. I want to explain myself in regards to your response here: I think there's money to be made even with all the marketing hurdles. So I think we're in (nailer) agreement, though I don't see why anybody has to wait on Apple to make a web app store.

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A few big hurdles, though: 1) you can't install apps on the iPhone except via the App Store (or asking a mobilesafari user to create a home screen icon themselves) 2) payment system inertia- who's going to sign up for another micropayment account when they're already set up with Apple?ĮDIT: while I was writing this, nailer said it better and more succinctly. 'I don't understand why some enterprising YC person doesn't simply start making a web App Store app for the iPhone that allows people to sell web applications to iPhone users, handle fulfillment just like the App Store does, and handle curation, just like the App Store does.' The Google results for 'congress' have no relationship whatsoever to 'congress' in the App Store.

There's no reason why html5 apps in the app store wouldn't go through the same review process. Every time I hear about the App Store being 'curated' for 'high quality' I choke a little (iFart?). Obviously it would be good to have access to all the hardware features. MobileSafari already has access to many hardware functions: gps, accelerometer, maybe compass? There are some great iTunes U videos on this if you're a member of the iPhone dev program. I have no motivation to create iPhone web apps if I can't easily get them in front of iPhone users monetize them. What I'm arguing for is not technology (which already exists), but technology support in the form of official frameworks, which subverts the '3rd party middleware' argument, and for equal access to distribution and payment channels. To solve the distribution channel problem, I don't understand why some enterprising YC person doesn't simply start making a web App Store app for the iPhone that allows people to sell web applications to iPhone users, handle fulfillment just like the App Store does, and handle curation, just like the App Store does. It certainly is- I have millions of competitors for the word 'Congress' on Google, and about 12 in the App Store. If you're saying that that, too, ought to be in the App Store, well- then what you're really arguing for isn't technology but that the App Store is a better distribution channel to mobile devices than the Web. Web & HTML 5 support: developers can make or do anything they want to on the platform.Īpp Store: Cultivated catalog of high quality apps for customers.Īt the end of the day, we don't need PhoneGaps or Titaniums- we need MobileSafari to have the same hooks into the hardware (gps, compass, accelerometer, camera, etc) as Cocoa Touch. I get this argument, but couldn't you say Apple gives the customer the best of both worlds? HTML5 apps built on open standards should be on an equal footing with apps built in Cocoa Touch. They should buy or provide an officially-supported analogue to a tool like PhoneGap or Titanium, allowing HTML5 apps to appear in the App Store, and perhaps provide an Apple-supported framework such as their mysterious PastryKit or contribute to SproutCore, giving HTML5 developers better tools to conform to Apple's HIG. If they're going to pitch HTML5 as an alternative to Flash (and, implicitly, the iPhoneOS API), then why not let them compete directly with Cocoa Touch apps? Why not offer HTML5 developers a way to take advantage of the App Store's monetization and discoverability?Īpple already provides some amazing documentation and tutorials for making offline-capable mobile web apps, but they're still treated by Apple as the bastard cousins of 'real' iPhone apps.