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Mozilla unveils Apps Marketplace for Developers next year,

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ozilla, a not for profit company devoted to placing the energy of the Web in peoples' arms and fingers, these days declared that the Mozilla Industry will start for designers to publish Web applications at Cellular Community The summit. By developing on start Web technological innovation like HTML5...

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This is fantastic. I've always been enticed by the idea of selling apps for mobile platforms, but I knew it would mean setting the time aside to learn either Java or Objective C with some proficiency before I could make anything worthy of sale. The ability to construct an 'app' using the same languages and tools that I use to make sites is an incredible boon.

I can't wait until selling HTML5 apps is commonplace. We have the Chrome store already, and soon we will even be able to make Windows 8 apps in HTML5 (albeit with IE9, but still!). I think a solid contender from Mozilla will also be necessary for paid HTML5 apps to become a reality. With the major browser vendors all backing this concept we have a great chance of it becoming not only a reality, but a profitable alternative to selling native apps.

The author is either a robot or speaks English as a second language. There are a ton of factual inaccuracies that aren't present in the linked source material.

Official blog post: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/02/22/mozilla-marketplace-...

This is a step... albeit in the wrong direction. There shouldn't be one Marketplace per browser/OS. We have the power to make a single unified marketplace, why don't we. As a developer, I don't want to maintain an HTML5 app, and then have to submit it to 10 different marketplaces with 10 different codes of conduct with 10 different formats.

Agreed, and though you've not said specifically, this is what also bothers me about some of the "Software Center" type features (e.g. Linux Mint and Ubuntu).

Can we not agree to have a store-like repository/front-end available for all distros? e.g. Have one entry point where developers can submit source/apps; set the distros supported/unsupported; go through some kind of community approval process.

It's definitely not a small feat, but I think it would prove to be more helpful for _everyone_ than these per device/browser/OS markets.

Open Web Apps (which Mozilla is working on) doesn't have to be submitted to an app store. You can have an install button on your site and have your visitors install that way.

> next year

The article itself says "later this year", so I assume that is wrong.

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