A New Direction

We are going to change our direction here at Golden Delicious Apps. Since we opened our doors, the concentration has been iOS apps. We have dabbled in releasing Android and web apps but nothing really serious. Going forward, GDA is going to develop web apps exclusively. While we will continue to upgrade and distribute our current thirteen iOS apps, we will start no new projects designed to go on the Apple app store, unless, of course, you want to pay me to make one for you or your company, in which case let's talk!

The development process for an app going on the Apple app store is too labor intensive for our small software development apps. The review process can take longer than the development time. The process for submitting an app (uploading  to Apple) can take a full work day. All of this results in longer and longer development schedules.

There is also the consideration that HTML5 web apps could make app stores irrelevant, even apps you use when you don't have an internet connection. Web apps also allow GDA to distribute apps across all platforms and change code instantly.

We will be writing everything in jQuery,  jQuery mobile, and many add-on Javascript libraries, and then putting them on our server for distribution. We will have both free and pay apps.

Please let me know what you think as the web apps roll out.