App Store is For Suckers

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Argues that the App Store siphons developer effort away from high‑impact web work, citing a native Haitian Creole translator trapped in approval for weeks while a web version launches in 45 minutes and reaches everyone. Shows web apps are just optimized pages, can run offline, and scale across fragmented platforms from iPhone to Android to “smart” appliances. Recommends building in HTML/CSS/JS and using hybrids like PhoneGap to access device APIs and avoid store delays and duplicated codebases.

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" chapters (5)

1. 0:00The power of mobile web
2. 0:32Critique of app stores
3. 1:27Evolution of mobile apps
4. 2:34Challenges in native dev
5. 3:24The case for web apps

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