almighty_monkey - 11:56 am on Jul 14, 2011 (gmt 0)

I'm....not convinced.

Right now, the Appstore model strikes me as a stopgap technology. I think Microsofts model with Win8 - HTML5 Applets - is probably going to be the way forward over the current appstore model. Its got too many advantages - Completely open standard, easier to integrate with existing websites and services, easier cross platform capability... imagine being able to write an 'app' that runs natively on Windows, Linux, Andriod, Macos, iOS, WebOS, and contains content is spiderable and SEO-able to search engines.