I think that being in the app store is likely to attract more users to your application as this is where people tend to look. Additionally, not all apps in the store cost money, so why not use it to organise web apps? That said, I think that the user expects to find applications that will run natively, rather than something that will just launch an instance of Safari pointing at your web app.
If you are following PhoneGap, you will see that some developers are releasing hybrid applications that are written using web app techniques but have access to the phone's native functionality. This is done using UIWebView and a wrapper around your web app. As far as I am aware, such applications will not fail the Apple review process just because they were developed using this approach. There are definitely advantages to this approach, especially if you are a web developer with no experience using Obj-C. I played with something similar a while ago for http://riflethru.com/ to see what is possible. I ended up with a native application with embedded GWT, so all the HTML/CSS/JS sit as resources inside the binary and are loaded locally rather than over the wire. /dave On Oct 27, 11:55 am, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone list some iphone apps that were written in GWT and have > > been published in the app store? > > Maybe I'm being thick but... my first impression when I read this > question was... why/how would want to sell it through the App Store? > > Since the GWT app is really just a 'web site' that works with the > iPhone, there's no executable to sell. It could be that the obvious > answer is that you want to sell your app on the App Store is to make > money. But since your GWT app is just a web app, wouldn't it be better > to just make sure your target audience knows about your GWT app and > maybe you could charge for use of the app by forcing an authenticated > login that was just restricted to 'paid' users. > > Maybe it's the jet lag kicking in but I'd never even thought about > wanting to sell a 'web app' from the App Store. > > Am I missing something you're trying to accomplish? > > - John - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
