I have an iPhone and iPad, and sure - I do use a lot of native applications - but the browser certainly is one of my most-used apps on the tablet. I think my t

I have an iPhone and iPad, and sure - I do use a lot of native applications - but the browser certainly is one of my most-used apps on the tablet. I think my top useage on the iPad is: 1) RSS reading (native app syncing with Google reader) 2) A browser (a tabbed-one) 3) GPS apps (Coyote / Navigon) 4) Instant messaging 5) Games (Death rally, Monopoly, Infinity blade, Minigore, Cut the rope, ...) 6) Mail 7) Movies (Youtube, Plex, TED, ...) So the top 2 is actually web-browsing. The RSS reading is mostly looking at a Webkit-view anyway... I typically use a tablet when I'm relaxed and have the time. On the phone however, this is completely different, although I mostly have both at hand. I use my phone in much shorter bursts, on the road. The phone is more an "I need to know something now" device, as quick as possible. Web-only simply can't beat that, small native apps are a lot quicker to start, offer a better interface for such a small display, well-optimized web-apps for smaller displays are not that easy to find. My top-apps are mostly phone and communication-related things like calling, texting, calendar, reading mail and facebook. Then stuff like google maps, and apps specialized in searching specific things or quickly looking up something, like weather, restaurants in the direct surroundings, ... And games :p I do think the web is important, most apps use web-api's anyway, but one of the points of apps that is overlooked a lot - is that the online market makes it easy to browse for specific applications, native only. If there was something like the appstore for online native applications built-in in the os, where I could search for them, see popularity and ratings, I would probably use a lot more, certainly if they would have the quality of the full HTML5 financial times app, which is simply amazing.