OpenAppMkt is a just-launched, open alternative to Apple's "curated" App Store, gathering the best web-apps into one place. One constant criticism of Apple is the fact that its App Store is too rigid ...

As Apple is fond of reminding those who complain about the App Store, native apps are only one prong of developing software for iOS devices—there’s also Web apps. While they can’t necessarily do ...

Few people remember it now, but for the first year after the launch of the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone in June, 2007, there was no App Store. The device came with a few built-in or "native" apps like ...

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Plenty of websites and services use slick web apps in lieu of, or in addition to, native software for the iPhone App Store, but they had no storefront of their own until now. OpenAppMkt is an HTML app ...

While it’s a great idea to showcase in one single place iPhone-optimized web applications, this attempt proves once again why Cocoa still reigns over web apps: it just doesn’t feel right on the iPhone ...

Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook’s Project Spartan, which is the social network’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile ...