gigaom.com — Though the number of iOS and Android apps continues to grow by leaps and bounds, Yaron Galai bets that the trend of developing native apps is a short-term fad. Here's why he thinks companies should reexamine their app strategy.
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johnnysoftwareSep 25, 2011
Apple's decision to charge 30% on subscription revenue is not surprising. If they did not do so,then huge publishers would sell you one book, pay royalty on that, and then sell you the second thru millionth one without paying any royalty.
Presumably they pay writers for each work. They should treat Apple the same.
johnnysoftwareSep 25, 2011
I see links to iOS apps all the time. You click the link, it takes you to a a web page that thoroughly describes the app. If you want to buy, you click a link on that page and it launches iTunes which is affectively Apple's eCommerce web client.
Gigaom spins some stories really hard, to the point of being awkward for them, I think.
But to say that you cannot "easily" put a link to an iPhone/iPad app on the web is just an outright distortion; it is false.
fevergoldSep 25, 2011
Offline apps like the Universal Number Generator (Android) is valuable because it is accessible through offline native app content. Not everything has to be connected through the web. However i agree that most server/client native apps can threaten or at least compete with classic online content