Re: Facebook App Center Launches

chrome web store, also.

the thing about the apple store is that it takes 30% of app sales
revenue, and also blocks apps that are not in the interest of Apple,
and also it makes people program in Objective C which binds a
developer community to one brand. What's nice about Apple is that for
web apps, they have a pretty good browser, and don't support Flash.

it's nice to see facebook support web apps, although a lot of it will
probably be flash. what's not so nice is that i presume these apps
will all use facebook connect, which is of course even worse than
Flash.

What makes the Mozilla and Chrome web stores stand out is that they
promote web apps. There is at the same time a trend towards "data on
the wire", meaning web apps are unhosted, and access data from data
APIs, using XHR.

What is maybe making the web struggle to keep up with Apple is that
it's not one official starting point, it's not whitelisted, so users
run the risk of finding crappy apps, and it's less intuitive that the
user may want to pay the developer (either with pay wall or with
voluntary donation) for the effort of developing the app.

What makes the web as such lag behind on Facebook specifically, is
that a lot of people have their user data prefilled in facebook, and
it's easy to build a rich app experience using that pre-existing user
data.

What the unhosted project tries to do is get people to own their own
read-write-web host, where they have their (linked) personal data, so
that apps can query the user data using XHR, just like on facebook
connect, but without making facebook a central point.

The web already has several app stores, but not a lot of people are
using them yet.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://newsroom.fb.com/News/App-Center-A-New-Place-to-Find-Social-Apps-175.aspx
>
> Seems to be quite a few app centers?
>
> Facebook
> Apple
> Android
> Ubuntu
> Mozilla
> OpenSocial?
>
> Any others?
>
> I wonder if any of these apps can be bootstrapped to the Web.  Or we need an
> app center for the web itself?
>
>

Received on Friday, 8 June 2012 09:16:27 UTC