This is a great post and I'm glad to see someone do such a nice description of "doing it from scratch", but I thought I'd mention that Dashcode (part of the fre

This is a great post and I'm glad to see someone do such a nice description of "doing it from scratch", but I thought I'd mention that Dashcode (part of the free developer tools for OSX - http://www.apple.com/macosx/developers/#dashcode http://www.apple.com/macosx/developers/#dashcode ) has built-in support for developing iPhone Web Apps and includes some templates for the more common types. It's a cool way to get an app up-and-running quickly without having to consider the App Store process and while it does abstract you a bit from the straight coding, it's all still done with HTML, CSS and Javascript so if you're already a web developer and not interested in learning Objective-C it's a nice tool to build something quickly. I've developed several "native" iPhone apps but went this way for one project because we could do everything they wanted to do in a web app and it was simply faster to get there than if we did a native app. Definitely one of the most overlooked options out there.