Comments on: Mobile Apps in 2009: Local/Native, Mobile Web, App Stores

By: Josiah

Josiah — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:31:28 +0000

Why choose between native and web apps when you can easily have both?

WrapYourApp.com is a service that gives web apps a way to be sold in App Stores. All we need is the URL of the web app and we can put it in the iPhone App Store, Android Market, Palm Catalog (when it opens to general 3rd party apps) and desktop apps on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Prices start at $149.

Mobile web app authors maintain their own code and hosting – while being able to update their application without resubmitting the app to each store.

By: mobile facts — Still No Talking About A Revolution

mobile facts — Still No Talking About A Revolution — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:48:05 +0000

[...] in a response to mobile developer Mike Rowehl. You may also want to check out Mike’s site or this overview to find out more on the mobile eco system/mobile apps debate or visit a local Mobile Monday event. [...]

By: Ameet

Ameet — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:41:13 +0000

Interesting post. I’m just worried that everyone is going to create their own App Store which further fragments the space. I’ve talked a little bit about the pros and cons around developing for the mobile web versus mobile applications on our blog here: http://fivemobile.com/development/mobile-web-mobile-apps/

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:57:37 +0000

Mobile Apps in 2009: Local/Native, Mobile Web, App Stores…

App-stores have been shifting the balance on application development and distribution (back) towards local/native applications….

By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:36:28 +0000

Totally agree with the direction of the app store – although it’s hard to imagine anybody catching Apple.

As you said yourself, the experience needs to be great for the store to be successful and only apple has figured out the UI to date.

By: — Still No Talking About A Revolution

— Still No Talking About A Revolution — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:50:15 +0000

By: ceo

ceo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:19:33 +0000

@Igor, I understand what you are saying; the web search satisfies the discovery piece, but in addition I’m talking about a revenue model that is part of this “mobile web app store” that incentives mobile web apps developers beyond the traditional methods of today…

ceo

By: Igor Faletski

Igor Faletski — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:43:25 +0000

The AppStore for the (Mobile) Web is Search. In its current incarnation, that means Google.

Don’t know about you guys, but it irks us every time to hear the hundreds-of-millions-of-downloads kind of statistics from Apple. So many apps get erased immediately after, most other ones are forgotten the next day. We need statistics that break down usage paterns, rank apps by active daily users – pretty much the route Facebook had to take with their platform. This would really transform AppStore from a great niche tool into a mobile intelligence source.

By: Kiran Mudiam

Kiran Mudiam — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:23:50 +0000

I agree with you on the fact that we need to have a portal/appstore for the mobile web as google/other search engines are not able to do a good job of making this happen for the mobile web. I hate google’s approach, they don’t even recognize the fact that you are visiting m.google.com from the iphone as they will trans code result pages through their gwt renderer. Perhaps Yahoo can see this niche and do something better if they want to survive this mobile web.

By: Frédéric Martinent

Frédéric Martinent — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:42:28 +0000

I fully agree with the fact that we need an app store for the mobile web, especially the ability to monetize a mobile web site (with an event-based billing or a daily or monthly subscription).

In France we have “Gallery” that is an agreement between the main 3 operators but we need something more global and better in terms of discovery (with ratings and other social features).