Comments on: Mobile Web Apps: The End of App Stores?

By: Will

Will — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:19:03 +0000

Its really great that ppolee are sharing this information.

By: Simon Flack

Simon Flack — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:52:39 +0000

You can wrap your webapp in PhoneGap and use Urban Airship for Push Notification.

http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/06/09/phonegap-push/

By: Aileen Sonnabend

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By: Steve Antal

Steve Antal — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:36:01 +0000

I totally agree with your view, I tested prettyMobile on my Android-based device, and I must say aside from a few very minor resolution issues it just worked, which is amazing, considering the fact that you didn’t actually do extensive work to make this possible.

If you would like a helping hand on making prettyMobile work well on Android, drop me an email, I am considering on using prettyMobile to do a mobile version of a site.

Cheers.

By: Joseph Alvini

Joseph Alvini — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:35 +0000

I just wanted to tell you that your apps are awesome and I just left you a $25 donation. I wish you had a conact for so that I may talk to you about other custom work but unfortunately you do not have a contact form. Please contact me if you are interested.

Also I am interested in advertising on your site

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:14:29 +0000

There is a lot of truth to that. Meebo was a popular web app for me before they released an application for it. The only thing I think the app store has some relevance for those who use the iPod touches. While it’s possible for the iTouch to access web apps in wifi hot spots, they’ll still be out of reach when out of web hot spots.

However, I believe with the way technology is going, internet access may just be available everywhere you go in the near future.

But I certainly agree with the versatility and limitless possibilities of developing a web app.

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:16:32 +0000

Totally agreed. Web apps is the wave of the future. Push notification could actually be done with one approved app that does push/pull with xml based data that will enable unlimited webapps.
PS: loved your prettyMobile photo view it is just the way I intended to write it myself using jquery. Thanks for saving me the time! Whenever I start making some money with coding again, I’ll definitely donate!

By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:11:08 +0000

(in agreement) With the use of HTML5, JS and CSS3 technologies, Web Applications definitely provide a easy cross platform reach to mobile users. Another upcoming technology that is interesting (and similar I think) is mobile widgets. Using web technologies while providing “native app” functionality (gps info, accelerometer info, etc) based on an open W3C standard and a universal API, they do sound like the holy grail.

Most platforms are in beta and mostly in Europe/Asia. Though there are other more local companies like RIM (and others) are engaging in that for their devices. I know RIM has integrated their Push/Pull technology as well.

Though… in reality developing is still a real pain, and the universal implementation is still not quite… well, universal.

By: Cedric Dugas

Cedric Dugas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:49:31 +0000

Agreed

As far as I am concern, the only thing really missing from mobile web app is the push notification system.