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mcav
Best of all, you can submit those apps to the Mac App Store. (I have. Great compromise.)
thought_alarm
So I guess that puts you one level above "casual spammer." How do you sleep at night?
mcav
No. The app is just as legit as my iOS version: http://subdivideapp.com/

There's nothing inherently spammy about writing a Mac app in HTML.

richtaur
> We recently announced that we had also launched the game on the Mac App Store

We did too :) Write once, run on multiple platforms! Awesome.

Klonoar
Embed "Webkit".

HTML5 is not a browser viewport.

cleer
Wouldn't this make it easier than ever to illegally distribute the app? Show Package Contents -> copy and paste files?
rmoriz
that's what people need to know when using phoengap.

but i guess someone could write an encryption/decryption filter before passing data to webkit?

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tlrobinson
The alternative is just security through obscurity.