An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 30, 2010 @06:38AM from the mr-jobs-tear-down-that-wall dept.

waderoush writes "Princeton's Ed Felten has criticized the iPhone and iPad as Disneyland-like 'walled gardens' and says there's no way the iTunes App Store can 'offer the scope and variety of apps that a less controlled environment can provide.' Now there's a central marketplace where developers can sell iPhone-optimized apps without going through Apple's gatekeepers. Launched today, it's called OpenAppMkt and it's a showcase for mobile Web apps — not just the type seen back in 2007-2008, before the advent of the App Store, but also for new games and other apps developed using HTML5/CSS/JavaScript (in some cases, the same apps compiled and sold as native iPhone apps). Xconomy has a behind-the-scenes interview with OpenAppMkt's creators, who say they're not out to compete with the native App Store, but that developers deserve new ways to reach users."

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Walled garden discussions by Dracos · 2010-07-30 07:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

All walled garden discussions begin and end with this: Internet vs AOL.
The outlands will always become more diverse and desirable than the garden. The garden's residents will therefore always abandon it. It is only a matter of time.
1. Re:Walled garden discussions by Karlt1 · 2010-07-30 08:00 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  The outlands will always become more diverse and desirable than the garden. The garden's residents will therefore always abandon it. It is only a matter of time.
  And after almost a decade, /. users are still predicting that iTunes + iPod will fall to a more opened platform.......