For what it’s worth, Apple didn’t go the app route to begin with. They were all in on web apps on the iPhone, and had no plans to allow native app development u

For what it’s worth, Apple didn’t go the app route to begin with. They were all in on web apps on the iPhone, and had no plans to allow native app development until developers demanded it. The iPhone didn’t have native app support until around a year after it’s release. They thought browsers had the capabilities necessary to make web apps mobile friendly enough to fill the need at the time, but that was overly-optimistic.