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Apple Brings Its App Store To the Web (theverge.com)

(Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the you-can-look-but-you-can't-download dept.)


Apple has officially [1]launched a web-based version of its App Store that lets users browse apps across all Apple devices through a redesigned interface. "There's no way to download apps from the App Store on the web, however," notes The Verge. "Apple just gives you the option to share an app or open it directly inside the App Store installed on your device." From the report:

> Now, when you navigate to [2]apps.apple.com , you'll see the revamped interface instead of [3]a webpage that just contains information about the App Store. [...] Along with the ability to switch between listings of apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, you can check out recommendations on the Today tab as well as sort apps by category, such as productivity, entertainment, adventure, and more. The new web-based App Store also serves as a portal where you can search for apps, too.



[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/812731/apple-app-store-web-iphone-mac-ipad

[2] http://apps.apple.com/

[3] https://www.apple.com/app-store/


OK (Score:5, Insightful)

by r1348 ( 2567295 )

Slow news day, I guess.

Re: (Score:2)

by ChunderDownunder ( 709234 )

I got excited for a sec, re the recent story about [1]running Linux in a browser. [slashdot.org]

If Linux is ported to WASM, why not XNU?

Turns out Google Play had a web interface since, like, forever.

[1] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/0610234/linux-ported-to-webassembly-boots-in-a-browser-tab

The Worst American Poet
Julia Moore, "the Sweet Singer of Michigan" (1847-1920) was so bad that
Mark Twain said her first book gave him joy for 20 years.
Her verse was mainly concerned with violent death -- the great fire
of Chicago and the yellow fever epidemic proved natural subjects for her pen.
Whether death was by drowning, by fits or by runaway sleigh, the
formula was the same:
Have you heard of the dreadful fate
Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
Of their death I will relate,
And also others lost their life
(in the) Ashbula Bridge disaster,
Where so many people died.
Even if you started out reasonably healthy in one of Julia's poems,
the chances are that after a few stanzas you would be at the bottom of a
river or struck by lightning. A critic of the day said she was "worse than
a Gatling gun" and in one slim volume counted 21 killed and 9 wounded.
Incredibly, some newspapers were critical of her work, even
suggesting that the sweet singer was "semi-literate". Her reply was
forthright: "The Editors that has spoken in this scandalous manner have went
beyond reason." She added that "literary work is very difficult to do".
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"