At the moment web apps are not ready to replace native apps. I believe one day they will be but it might become a difficult journey. (Caveat: I am not an iPho

At the moment web apps are not ready to replace native apps. I believe one day they will be but it might become a difficult journey. (Caveat: I am not an iPhone dev) When the iPhone first came out Steve Jobs extolled the virtues of having web apps, yet people everywhere started clamouring for an SDK (rightly so). With a web app you may not be able to access all the juicy goodness of the on-board hardware (GPS, compass etc). Until those things become accessible via web-based software, I don't think we'll see a massive exodus. If Apple has their wits about them, then they'll keep introducing new hardware features and the the inventive developers will find cool things to do with them, but only with native apps. I do think we'll end up with making a shift to more mobile web apps one day but I'm no longer clear on what that journey will look like.