“Holier than thou”: Original iPhone supported offline HTML5 apps, with home screen icons and full app saved to home screen ... and iOS still supports that. Ye

“Holier than thou”: Original iPhone supported offline HTML5 apps, with home screen icons and full app saved to home screen ... and iOS still supports that. Yes, you can still distribute purely open apps that work offline to iOS devices outside the app store with zero approvals from Apple or anyone. Developers preferred the app store even for “apps” that are nothing but a web window, not just about APIs etc. So Jobs is onto something with the “a product is a package of emphasis” and the market decides. Sounds like you don’t like the market, which as Jobs noted in that quote, is everything outside the valley bubble.