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The Beginning of the End of the App Bubble
- DrNippleNutz 14y agoThe "app store" was a shim, something put in place because webapps as Google and other invisioned them were not ready, for many reasons. They came to power with a single unified store when there was only one large market iOS. Much like when Windows had sole dominance people made apps for Windows that was were the money was. I can only think that nightmare of porting to all these app stores will push developers into a new model the web app. The real issue is monetizing web apps in a easy convenient tractionless form. Ads can not be the future for all software, can it?
- kibwen 14y agoI'm actually not sure if Chrome's app store allows developers to monetize apps... it would seem kind of absurd if they didn't, but a cursory examination doesn't display any prices. If nothing else, web app monetization is the focus of one of Mozilla's current projects, set to launch later this year.[1] [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/apps/partners/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/apps/partners/
- cageface 14y agoYeah sure native apps will die as soon as HTML5 can do a, b and c. Oh and also x and y and z. Web apps are great for many things but they haven't killed native on the desktop. They seem even less likely to do so on mobile.
- bceagle 14y agoYou may be right, but my primary point was that something has to eventually change. It just seems crazy to me that I may have to think about hiring developers with knowledge of 6 - 12 different app platforms in the future. How does that make any sense?
- cageface 14y agoRight now only two matter. If WP makes any real headway that might be the tipping point but it seems to be headed the other way.
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