Knowledge that the browser installing the app supports a common set of standards. Monetization is basically 99% advertising at this point, which isn't tenable for many industries. Discovery comes down to reading a tweet about an app, or Googling. With an app, the browser knows when the user installs it that they want those things. With a normal site, a bunch of prompts could appear "Allow this website to track your location?" "Allow this website to use notifications?" "Allow this website to use unlimited storage?" "Allow this website to use the file system?" et cetera. Naturally, my opinions are my own.)īenefits to web app stores and installing apps: (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but have nothing to do with our web apps store. I hate that someday soon, someone will say to me "You should use _! But it's (Firefox|Chrome|IE) only." I thought we left that mentality with IE6. I hate app stores, and I hate what they have the potential to do to the web. Why can't browsers just beef up their bookmarking systems? Right now, we're hiding regular links behind "installations." If I pay for it in the (currently in development) Mozilla app store, that means I can't use it in Chrome. Let's say they charged for this app, which many apps will. Yet somehow, browser specific app stores are considered moving the web forward. If I made a site that you could only use if you opened it in IE and bookmarked it? Everyone would be crying foul. However, it's not clickable, it's not obvious and most apps won't.) ![]() Why can't I just type in a URL into any browser I want!? (Yes, I know that this specific app happens to have a link. It's just a link that uses open technologies that works well on any modern browser, yet you need to open Chrome and "install" it. ![]() This is why I hate the concept of App stores.
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