IPhone app that isn't (opens in new tab)

I see how packaging up an existing bookmarklet and selling it is an app could indeed be construed as unfair (although, a point could be made about the added value of the package itself). Creating an original piece of software, on the other hand, and making it available to the public for a fee, is the very definition of fair play in my book.

Cheapskates know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Here are 5 reasons: http://findinpage.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-makes-this-find-...

Why? It may do things that you can find for free elsewhere but that does not mean it is not an app. At the very least, the wrapper that delivers the bookmark is an app.

Yeah, I thought this was going to be another rant about the app store rejection process or something.

I expected another article about web-based Google Voice.

As the blog post author pointed out, let's not miss "a forest for the trees" - the post is not about THIS bookmarklet (as much as I'd like it to be, for self-serving reasons) or some other bookmarklet. MobileOrchard blog is for developers, not consumers of apps, and this post is about opening a new market and new possibilities for software applications that could benefit from tight integration with Safari and run in the context of any webpage - your imagination is the limit. The idea is that if one can monetize this, more professional-grade bookmarklets can become available. This is an opportunity for developers, and a boon for consumers.

iCab looks pretty cool - well worth checking out for its rich feature set.

On the other hand, I feel that switching from Safari to a different browser merely for the sake of in-page search would be overkill (like using a hammer to swat a fly) - I actually have no other beef with Safari, I genuinely like it. So I felt a bookmarklet would be the right-sized tool for the job.