On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 01:17:16PM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> > * App stores only want to deliver applications to devices which they
> > know will run on the device.
> 
> This would make sense in an Apple-esque walled garden with relatively
> few different device models. However, if Mozilla's app initiative is
> successful, there will be more devices than any store has the capacity
> to test specifically on. It would be bad if users of less common
> devices couldn't get apps just because they haven't been specifically
> tested. (Remember Web sites in the 1990s that blocked access from
> browsers that the authors hadn't tested. Those were not cool.)

Such sites still exist, and they still aren't cool.

Mike
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