"Write once, deploy everywhere" seems to have worked awfully well for Google and a host of other companies. Granted, Google docs is not as feature complete as M

"Write once, deploy everywhere" seems to have worked awfully well for Google and a host of other companies. Granted, Google docs is not as feature complete as MS Word, but it's good enough for a lot of people. There's a time and a place for native applications, no matter what the platform. But for a large percentage of apps in the different mobile market places writing them in HTML5 + JS wouldn't hurt them quality wise. If you need to support an app on multiple platforms I think it makes easier to turn out a higher quality app as your attention isn't split between three different releases. Granted, I work on private enterprise applications that the public will never get to see, but I think in a lot of cases a technology like phone gap makes a great deal of sense.