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The web-apps vs installed apps debate continues…

Posted by Rich Holdsworth on February 15, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Filed under: Mobile Device and Browser Detection, Mobile Internet, Mobile SEO, Mobile Web Design, Mobile Web Development

With Mobile World Congress kicking off today and a whole hall called ‘App Planet‘ [I guess 'Planet of the Apps' would have looked like a typo...] it’s a great day for another story with two ways of publishing to mobile going head to head.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28744c96-176a-11df-87f6-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=4dce8136-4a24-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html?nclick_check=1

So, lets be clear once again. Installed apps are OK but they’re expensive, tied to a particular OS, distributed through crowded and controlled channels, hard to spread virally and, well, so 2009.

Web Apps for mobile are cheap to develop, OS agnostic, browser independent (if you build them using Wapple technology), free to distribute and easy to spread. Oh, and this really IS the year of the mobile web so if you want to live in the now then mobile Web Apps are the only place to be!

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2 Comments

  1. Ryandc Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:56 am

    link is dead.
    And you didn’t explain any of the advantages of native apps :p

  2. Rich Holdsworth Says:
    February 26th, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Think you need to be an FT user to read the link.
    Actually, I did explain the advantages. Here they are again:

    …

    That OK? :)

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