I don't think I made my point really clearly: what I was saying is that the web as a platform needs to take whatever are the best tools, API's, and patterns tha

I don't think I made my point really clearly: what I was saying is that the web as a platform needs to take whatever are the best tools, API's, and patterns that exist in webOS/Android/iOS, of course. It's the fragmentation of those well designed platforms that I'm seeing an issue with. Maybe it's best to speak as a hypothetical "developer with an idea" that I'd like to hypothesize to be common: I don't have time to become proficient in developing on webOS/Android/iOS, and I don't want to do a half-assed job by quickly learning a system I'm not familiar with, so I'll pick one (probably iOS, because it provides the biggest reach internationally, and because I have the sense that iOS users are more likely to pay money for apps). I'd prefer to make one quality app, though, and ship it to all app stores, and have it degrade gracefully across devices that have one feature or another. Also, a pony. But seriously: I think Adobe's Flash-to-iOS is a great idea, but I have close to 0 confidence in Adobe being able to maintain it & keep it up to date with changes to the native platform. If Adobe had advocated making iPhone apps by shipping a full-featured Flash-to-HTML5 compiler and vocally advocated pushing HTML standards to reaching feature parity with the iPhone 4, it would be a dream come true.