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Default An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control

waderoush writes "Princeton's Ed Felten has criticized the iPhone and iPad as Disneyland-like 'walled gardens' and says there's no way the iTunes App Store can 'offer the scope and variety of apps that a less controlled environment can provide.' Now there's a central marketplace where developers can sell iPhone-optimized apps without going through Apple's gatekeepers. Launched today, it's called OpenAppMkt and it's a showcase for mobile Web apps mdash; not just the type seen back in 2007-2008, before the advent of the App Store, but also for new games and other apps developed using HTML5/CSS/JavaScript (in some cases, the same apps compiled and sold as native iPhone apps). Xconomy has a behind-the-scenes interview with OpenAppMkt's creators, who say they're not out to compete with the native App Store, but that developers deserve new ways to reach users."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F07%2F30%2F1812200%2FAn-iPhone-App-Store-That-Apple-Doesnt-Control" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=An+iPhone+App+Store+That+Apple+Doesn't +Control%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9Oe7ow" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/1812200/An-iPhone-App-Store-That-Apple-Doesnt-Control?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGwSVWjd2yQ1iS3gn3PXLvB-eVo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGwSVWjd2yQ1iS3gn3PXLvB-eVo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGwSVWjd2yQ1iS3gn3PXLvB-eVo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGwSVWjd2yQ1iS3gn3PXLvB-eVo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/3wdvaoB8V4E" height="1" width="1"/

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