This seems like a misconception. It's clear that Apple was brewing the SDK for developer adoption and that their crowing about web apps was a stop-gap measure.

This seems like a misconception. It's clear that Apple was brewing the SDK for developer adoption and that their crowing about web apps was a stop-gap measure. Are we really imagining Apple brought out a public SDK, set up the app approval system, certification, all that stuff, updated Xcode to support it all on a whim in under a year (starting with iPhoneOS 2) just because Cydia existed No way, José. Apple are good but even they can't pull all that out of their ass overnight. Web was clearly a stop-gap because the SDK wasn't ready and iPhoneOS was, at the time, an outlier in purposefully not supporting Java ME apps.