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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
I think that's a good argument for what that author was trying to say. If people only find things by browsing the App Store, if a great website doesn't have an iPhone app, they may not get discovered. Its similar to how every big company had to have an AOL Keyword 10 years ago, or in modern times, a Facebook fan page. AOL (10 years ago), Facebook, and to a lesser extent Apple, want to become "the internet."
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This is an absurd argument - how is browsing or searching the app store any different than browsing or searching Google to find new content? Especially since app store entries often have links to the publisher’s website, and google indexes the html landing pages that link to app store entries, so you have indexing happening bi-directionally.
Edit: Unless you are trying to say that it forces content producers to create apps, but I fail to see the downside to having more content producers creating mobile and touchscreen optimized versions of their stuff.