{"id":237888,"date":"2010-01-27T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/1808137909.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-27T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T09:33:00","slug":"google-routes-around-app-store-on-the-iphone-others-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237888","title":{"rendered":"Google Routes Around App Store On The iPhone&#8230; Others Can Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just recently suggesting that the massive focus on &#8220;apps&#8221; and &#8220;app stores&#8221; may be a <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/2344317854.shtml\">red herring<\/a>, as eventually many of those apps can be built via the web (especially as HTML 5 moves forward), without having to go through any kind of app store approval process.  So it&#8217;s worth noting that, in fact, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/google-voice-does-end-run-around-apple-launches-new-web-app.html\" >has done exactly that with its Google Voice app<\/a> for the iPhone (doing so because of <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20090925\/1607516327.shtml\">problems<\/a> getting a client-side app approved by Apple).  While the app is still <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2010\/01\/seams-visibile-in-webbased-google-voice-app-for-iphone.html\" >rough around the edges<\/a>, it should be a reminder that there are ways around the app store, and web-based apps have plenty of potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/1808137909.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/1808137909.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100126\/1808137909&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=fc753fe50b426f10b1b0de312d189d68&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=fc753fe50b426f10b1b0de312d189d68&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=emdEQw_wg6o:D59QNaUpAvE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=emdEQw_wg6o:D59QNaUpAvE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=emdEQw_wg6o:D59QNaUpAvE:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/emdEQw_wg6o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just recently suggesting that the massive focus on &#8220;apps&#8221; and &#8220;app stores&#8221; may be a red herring, as eventually many of those apps can be built via the web (especially as HTML 5 moves forward), without having to go through any kind of app store approval process. So it&#8217;s worth noting that, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}