• The Register (UK), Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:05 PM

With only a touch of sarcasm, Mozilla exec Mike Beltzner is accusing Apple and Steve Jobs of conspiring to render the Web obsolete. "I wonder when Apple will stop shipping Safari," Mozilla's director of Firefox development tweeted this week, following Apple's "Back to the Mac" event. "It's obvious already from today's keynote that they're looking to bypass the web." What's motivating Beltzner's attack?

Well, as The Register notes, "A day after Mozilla unveiled a prototype for an 'open web app store' -- a browser-agnostic store offering access to standards-based web apps sans Jobsian gatekeeper -- Beltzner was less than pleased with the predictably draconian setup of Apple's new Mac App Store." The new store apparently forbids "beta", "demo", "trial" or "test" apps, and will reject any app that crashes or "exhibits a bug." Also, all apps must use the "appropriate Mac OS X APIs for modifying user data stored by other apps."

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