Apps on the iPhone. When Apple introduced the iPhone, they told third-party developers to build web apps for the phone, presumably because they hadn't the dev

Apps on the iPhone. When Apple introduced the iPhone, they told third-party developers to build web apps for the phone, presumably because they hadn't the dev tools ready yet. But everybody wanted to build native apps. That's the funny thing, Apple didn't create the hype, the eager dev community did. Then the tools and the apps came. The rest is history, as they say.