If you want any more evidence to show that Apple are heavily in favour or HTML applications, just look at Dashcode. It's essentially an iPhone webapp IDE, provi

If you want any more evidence to show that Apple are heavily in favour or HTML applications, just look at Dashcode. It's essentially an iPhone webapp IDE, providing a framework to make 'native' feeling apps. People set their level of expectations according to the distribution channel. If you go to some web page, you're not surprised if it doesn't work well or has obnoxious adverts, and everyone knows that the web is full of porn. An App Store experience is expected to be better. People hold Apple responsible for curating the App Store, so it can't be as open as the web. People demanded that curated experience because closed/curated is simpler and easier to work with. Ultimately, I don't see Apple caring how your app is distributed - through their closed platform or the open HTML platform - as long as people keep buying their phones. It's easy to apply FSF-style ideology to Apple's decisions, but ultimately, they're really only interested in selling stuff. (Which means making stuff people want to buy.)