iOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced. Obviously the apps Apple shipped on the original iPhone were native apps. Even

iOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced. Obviously the apps Apple shipped on the original iPhone were native apps. Even before the official App Store was announced, developers reversed engineered their way to native apps. It wasn’t a good look for Apple: it could create native apps but 3rd party developers couldn’t, especially game developers. HTML5 wasn’t nearly as capable 10+ years ago as it is today and developers let it be known that wasn’t tenable. Apparently allowing 3rd party native apps was the right thing to do.