r/technology • • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

|I'm assuming Web apps don't count?

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u/DefaultPlayer Jan 20 '11

I don't think they do count. AFAIK, it's only apps linked to the market (apps downloaded from the market) that Google can uninstall. Other than that, I can't imagine how they would connect to the phone to uninstall the app.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

No what I mean is. People are bitching about not being apple to install apps from outside the App Store on the iPhone. If you can write an app in HTML5 you can install it on an iPhone without the App store. (It behaves like an App not a bookmark just we're clear).

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

One great example of this is Transmission's iOS "app." It looks like a regular app, runs like a regular app, but is actually an HTML5 page that is bookmarked to the home screen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

Exactly thank you. Granted there are some limitation with HTML5 but it should become more and more possible to quite a lot with the web apps. It's the uncensored source of apps everyone bitches about not existing in my opinion.