![]() ![]() ![]() With the arguments in this filing (PDF), Apple is effectively standing by its fourteen year old stance that the iPhone - and, by extension, the iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV - are specialized platforms that it has been gracious enough to allow native development on and, in order to maintain that system, must extract 15–30% of developers’ revenue earned through these platforms. Apple isn’t rebuilding its own apps as web apps - it has web apps, certainly, and plenty of its native apps have components written in web languages, but I cannot imagine that it would scrap its native Mail or Reminders apps in favour of HTML versions. What hasn’t changed is that apps and websites are fundamentally different experiences. Some of those things have changed: web apps are far more capable now than they were fourteen years ago, you can “install” them to your home screen, and it is very rare in much of the world to not be connected to some kind of network almost all the time. Think about it this way: If web apps - which are only accessible over a network which don’t get app icons in the iPhone home screen which don’t have any local data storage - are such a great way to write software for iPhone, then why isn’t Apple using this technique for any of their own iPhone apps? Telling developers that web apps are iPhone apps just doesn’t fly. Perhaps it’s playing well in the mainstream press, but here at WWDC, Apple’s “ you can write great apps for the iPhone: they’re called ‘web sites’” - message went over like a lead balloon. I am reminded of WWDC 2007 and, more specifically, John Gruber’s memorable retort: “Apple is not in a position to disregard the environment in which its app marketplace operates and does not accept the Commission’s characterisation of the Apple App Store as ‘the most dominant app marketplace by a large margin’.” ![]() Apple Tells Australian Regulator That the App Store Has Plenty of Competition With Websites and Other App MarketplacesĪpple has responded further to the Australian consumer watchdog’s probe of app marketplaces, this time rejecting characterisation that the Apple App Store is the most dominant app marketplace and saying there are other options for iOS users, such as by going to a website. ![]()
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