Facebook is currently working on an alternative: an Appstore for the mobile web via the 'open' web. Because, as Cross argues, it is nonsense that good apps depend on a top-10 positioning to become successful. It is nonsense that an app becomes successful when it happens to be highlighted by Apple or Android.
'Carrier billing' (payment via providers) is the new way to pay for online products or services turkey telegram data Paying for an app via the web with a credit card or alternative payment methods is too cumbersome. A visitor has to go through too many steps before he can call himself the owner. Carrier billing is a solution for providers to pass on costs to customers. You click/press 'pay' and you can use the product immediately. Afterwards you pay via your telephone bill. Bango , Boku and Zong are already existing services that simplify payments. But Facebook also joins this list.
Simon Cross (Facebook), Ewan MacLoad (founder and author of 'Mobile Industry Review') and Bruce Lawson (Opera) were all very complimentary about the future of HTML5. None of them gave any guarantees that the mobile web will win over native apps . After all, it's about task-centricity, not about competing between two solutions that make it possible. And competition between different platforms drives innovation. One wouldn't be as powerful without the other.