Re: Web Apps store equivalents

Well I don't disagree that there is a current perception issue here.

But in a trade off between committing resources to helping developers not to sell anything, by-and-large, and helping somewhat different constituencies to realise real commercial objectives that don't depend on making millions by selling a killer app, I know which I would vote for.

If one can do both, then so much the better.

Jo



On 8 Mar 2013, at 10:43, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:

> Le jeudi 07 mars 2013 à 22:45 +0000, Jo Rabin a écrit :
>> Observing that 99.999% (*) of apps are loss making (in opportunity
>> cost terms at least) for individual developers seeking their fortunes
>> in the apps marketplace,
> 
> I would agree that making Web apps sellable as software is not
> necessarily a long-term need, but:
> * app stores are not only useful for selling apps; as I tried to detail
> in my message, they also play an important role in terms of discovery
> 
> * it might be that the competition with the native ecosystem make the
> short term need of selling Web app sufficiently important that we should
> do something about it (but I'm not sure how determine whether that's
> true or not)
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
>

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