The future of monetizing a mobile web app
blog.appstorehq.com
blog.appstorehq.com
It's not like i learned something new from it, they just promoted their future app store.
Sometimes i wish there was a down-vote on HN...
My goal was to help educate developers to the fact that mobile web apps have a bright future. Developers don't necessarily need to feel trapped by the popular native mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, etc) when there are other options available that are more open, more familiar, and easier to port to many different devices.
Still, mobile web apps have a long way to go for both developers and users, and distribution and monetization are two of the most important vectors that need to be improved. The point of the post was to show the potential of mobile web apps first, and to show how AppStoreHQ is helping these vectors for developers and users second.
That's not how you accept responsibility, that's how you shift the blame back to the aggrieved person and piss them off some more. I don't have any strong feelings in this situation, just pointing out a place where can save you plenty of problems down the road: apologize unreservedly or not at all. For a better take try this:
I'm sorry I came across like this, I meant better than that.
Also, what about Paypal, is it impossible to do that in a mobile setting?
And as far as I know there is a downvote, when you pass a certain karma threshold?
IMHO this is Apple's blind side, too. I can rebuild most of the appstore's apps in HTML 5 and "sell" them through mobile safari. Apple doesn't get a ut if I do that.
- Developer Support: Web apps only need to be coded once for all platforms. Deployment is in only one location (instead of all installed devices). tTe idea of a thin client is VERY appealing to many developers.
- Mobile Safari: If Apple wants their mobile browser to remain competitive with Google's mobile browsers they need to support the very features that will kill the AppStore
- The AppStore policies: I can publish apps that would violate the AppStore's terms as a web-app. It will be cross-platform and can even be things like a code editor or a porn browser.
Go and try 280slides.com. We're very close already as far as UI and feel goes. IMHO it's very hard to deny the coming age of web apps and thin clients (aka the age of Chrome OS).