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An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Like I need an army to take out a bunch of guys by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doug: "It's like 'that guy's coming around the corner?' BOOM, HEADSHOT! It's like 'that other guy's coming around the corner?' BOOM, HEADSHOT! Send yer tank, I got frags! I got frags!"

    Jeremy: "So, you're like a one-ranger army coming at me and I'm like SCUD STORM. BOOMBOOMBOOM."

    Doug: "OK, Mr. Botanical tank with no balls, that's all I gotta to say. It's like 'Botanical tank, Look at me, no balls, no balls!"
    Jeremy: "You wanna see some balls? My Nuke Overlord will show you some balls!"

    Ah, such an oldie but a goodie...the TV show was decent, but there was nothin' quite like the early web episodes...

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    1. Re:Like I need an army to take out a bunch of guys by damien_kane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      +1 pwnage, of the pure variety

      What do noobs do all day? other than, you know, suck at games?

    2. Re:Like I need an army to take out a bunch of guys by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "You can train a noob, but he'll just be a trained noob like for all time n stuff, rite?"

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  2. Re:Disneyland by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try going to Disneyland and doing whatever you want to do, rather than what the people in control of the park actually condone.

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    Technoli
  3. Re:Disneyland by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's funny. Just last night on HBO, I watched a documentary on all the poor kids who live in the cheap motels surrounding Disneyland. They're too poor to actually go into Disneyland, but at least Walt and Co. haven't figured out a way to keep them from watching the fireworks at night. It was kind of sad, really.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  4. Re:Paid repositories on Linux? by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moonlight is worse than flash. Flash is known proprietary, moonlight is a fucking trap.

    There does not need to be anything that uses it, I sure as hell do not want it installed. I would rather use a totally DRMed to hell "netflix box" than have moonlight infect linux distros.