Thanks! I wonder what is keeping Apple from trying to cash in on some of these apps as well. Looks like there is a submission process and possibly a review process for these apps as well.
Because it's not a storefront to sell apps, it's just a catalog, and the developer of the webapp needs to take care of anything like that on their own. The submission/review for these is basically a cursory look to see if it's actually an iPhone webapp, categorized correctly, etc., not much more. How would Apple try to cash in on these when most of them are free or tied to a service that I assume a lot of developers created the webapp for in the first place, rather than have to fork over 30%/pay the $99 iOS Developer Program fee/deal with review hassles with Apple?
Because it's not a storefront to sell apps, it's just a catalog, and the developer of the webapp needs to take care of anything like that on their own.
I understand that it is a catalog and not a store. I didn't mean to imply that the exact webpage you linked was a storefront.
How would Apple try to cash in on these when most of them are free or tied to a service that I assume a lot of developers created the webapp for in the first place, rather than have to fork over 30%/pay the $99 iOS Developer Program fee/deal with review hassles with Apple?
Other than the OP I have seen other complete applications built on top of web technologies. I can believe that there are some web devs who would be willing to have their app reviewed and do the revenue share if it meant they didn't have to worry about setting up a store front and handling payments.
