Apple Handcuffs Web Apps On iPhone Home Screen 298
SF Polack writes "On Apple's iOS 4.3, HTML5 and JavaScript apps are running significantly slower when they're run from the iPhone or iPad home screen rather than Safari, and the OS is hindering the performance of these apps in other ways. The end result is that it's harder for web apps to compete with native iOS app sold through the App Store, where Apple takes a 30 per cent of sales."
Re:I smell troll bait (Score:2, Informative)
RTFA.
It says (near the end) that the Apple mobile team has confirmed the issue and Apple engineers also said that it will not be fixed.
It doesn't matter whether the new behavior was introduced deliberately or not, the negative effects are there. And Apple is saying they won't be fixing it. Therefore the article is not a troll.
Extremely deceptive article! The cause... (Score:5, Informative)
The iPad is the new IE6 (Score:4, Informative)
This is the opinion(not mine, I know this will be downvoted regardless) of this very interesting and detailed article which I wanted to post.
http://blog.millermedeiros.com/2011/01/ipad-is-the-new-ie6/ [millermedeiros.com]
Re:It's a bit to soon to say for sure (Score:5, Informative)
> Apple allow free apps in their store.
Apple still gets money for that. $99/year to host a free app. If you stop paying the $99/year, Apple removes the app from the store.
Re:Not anymore.... (Score:5, Informative)
We're not talking about these apps which were native apps and not web apps.
Yes, that's exactly what we are talking about. The whole point of the article is that if these services now want to be on the iPhone, etc without paying that cut to Apple they will need to create a web app, and when they attempt to integrate them seamlessly using Apple's recommended method, they will run more slowly for no apparent reason.
Re:Not anymore.... (Score:4, Informative)
You don't need a subscription for the Kindle app. There are tons of free Kindle ebooks too. But Apple wants 30% of the cost of any ebooks that Amazon sells through the Kindle app.