According to 9to5Mac, a proven source has told them that Apple’s going to phase out their official Apple Store app in favor of a mobile web version of the online Apple Store.
That certainly seems like a more consolidated approach to letting people shop from their iPads and iPhones, but what about the Apple Store app’s geolocation functionality that allows you to get in line at the Genius Bar or go check out a workshop at the physical retail location you’re currently visiting? 9to5Mac doesn’t know, but they say that Apple could either keep the official app around, or use Mobile Safari’s ability to access a user’s location to do it through the web.
Expect the mobile version of the online store to pop up in 2012.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
9 responses to “Official Apple Store App Will Be Phased Out For An Advanced New Mobile Safari Web App [Rumor]”
It would bring it in line with Google Chrome who already have a pretty cool web App store.Â
@twitter-237019554:disqus Confusingly, the Apple Store app isn’t the same as the Apple App Store http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app…
I just p a i d $21.87 for an i P a d 2-64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasonîc Lumîx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS.I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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I paid $23.88 for an i Pad 2 32-GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumiix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.41 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 635 which only cost me $ 61.74 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it al from,
EgoWin.com
I paid $23.88 for an i Pad 2 32-GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumiix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.41 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 635 which only cost me $ 61.74 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it al from,
EgoWin.com
I’m finding it hard to find a reason why Apple would do this. The application works.