Apps/PackagingProposal: Difference between revisions

Also, since it's the store that has to review the app and send new signatures for any updated version, it means that publishing a new version of your app no longer means simply updating the contents of your web server. You also have to contact the stores which you are selling your apps through and ask them to re-review your app and create new signatures for the app's resources.

When looking at the proposed solution this way it seems like we have come up with something that is the worst of both worlds. App developers are forced to create apps which consist of static resources and every time they want to publish a new version they have to contact all stores that they want to sell their app through. This feels a lot like a packaged app, the only difference is that the resources live as separate files on the developers server rather than as a zip file in the store. Yet app developers have to serve their apps through SSL and deal with coordinating publishing through multiple stores. This is non-webby, a pain to publish through and potentially expensive.