As I noted elsewhere, it’s about more than “so that people don’t have to write actual applications” (although I grant you that you have identified a real thing)

As I noted elsewhere, it’s about more than “so that people don’t have to write actual applications” (although I grant you that you have identified a real thing). For the ideologically inclined, it’s also about disintermediating the relationship between users and developers. Web sites don’t need an app store.