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1. I'm not sure there's any evidence of Apple loosening its grip the app store because a certain genre is popular on Android (eg Swype) 2. Apps take longer to

by nir 12y ago

1. I'm not sure there's any evidence of Apple loosening its grip the app store because a certain genre is popular on Android (eg Swype) 2. Apps take longer to develop, require more skill & time investment, and (if iOS) have to go through byzantine approval process. This mean longer iterations, less risk taking => slower innovation 3. The higher barrier of entry keeps a lot of people of the type that made the Web interesting from creating apps. Web dev was simple enough to allow non-techies to create some pretty interesting stuff. Most apps feel like they've been created by corporate dev teams or geeky college kids. 4. There's definitely a class of apps which couldn't be implemented as web apps - but that's mostly because the OS provides a limited API to the phone's features, not some inherent weakness of the Web model.

MrScruff 12y ago
Apps take longer to develop, require more skill & time investment For equivalent functionality/experience levels? That doesn't seem obvious to me.
- nir 12y ago
  Seems to me JavaScript is easier to develop with than Obj-C/Java - one evidence is that they pretty much require a heavy IDE while JS is often developed on glorified text editors. But even if that's not the case, new devs can get started by using open source software like Wordpress etc and learn to modify it as they go. I don't know of any equivalent in the app space.