RIGHT APPROACH – MOBILE APPS OR WEB APPS?

Digitech IT solutions provides you the right solution for developing a mobile app, we understand the

increasing demands of mobile app development. We aim to rightfully develop and portray the app

attributes in conformity with standards. While focusing on all aspects of our clients businesses, we

develop best mobile apps that will bring growth for your business.

But there are already more than 350,000 applications in the Apple App Store and while approaching

to mobile app development you feel that you are too late or may be the last one to join them. Even if

the half of them are never installed or used by any users.

What are actually web apps? It is definitely a playing field that needs to be explored and understood. iPhone / iPad optimized

websites are also known as WebApps. Today in this blog, Digitech IT solutions help you to

understand the difference between The iTunes Store App and web app and here advantages and

disadvantages

The iTunes Store App: The App is a piece of software that is written on the iOS platform. It has to be built on a Mac, go

through the iTunes approval process and will then finally end up being sold or distributed for free in

the iTunes Store. There are several advantages and disadvantages of these, which are as under:

Advantages:

They can be developed for a wide range of uses such as games, business productivity applications,

media applications, time management, and others.

They can be used without internet once they are installed.

Application can run in the background and send push notifications to the user such as calendar and its

task notifications.

They can be sold through the iTunes store and have a subscription based service.

Can directly interact with mobile apps such as the camera, GPS, and touch screen

Disadvantages: Time and cost of developing these app is much higher than creating a Web App.

To make application available to the whole market you will also need to develop Apps for the Android

and Blackberry platforms.

Application is harder to test for simple users

App needs to go through Apple App review process.

30% of your total sales revenue will be share with Apple.

Every single bug fix need to go through the Apple approval process which takes 2 to 4 days on

average.

Web app: A website optimized for mobile devices is usually an “m” subdomain of a regular website which

provides the web pages in a very specific way.

Advantages: Lower development time and cost

Testing is simple

Apple’s approval is not required

Cross platform scalability is easier

Disadvantages: Web App can’t run in the background and cannot send push notifications.

You Can’t sell the it through the iTunes store

Peripheral integration is not 100%

Application capabilities are limited to web technologies. 3D games or processor hungry applications

cannot use

Operation of the Web App is not as smooth as that of the App

Concluding the blog, Digitech IT solutions believe that there are more benefits to develop your

mobile solution via the Web App due to Ease of maintenance, Lower cost, Ease of deployment,

revisions, and testing, Ability to reuse existing code from your website, Avoiding approval process

from Apple etc.

Contact Digitech IT solutions and let us know if we can help you find the right approach for you as

we develop both Web Apps and iTunes Store Applications