There is still something HTML5 can't beat: games and heavily graphics apps in general. That and C will always be faster than JS+html on heavy graphic. Unless HT

There is still something HTML5 can't beat: games and heavily graphics apps in general. That and C will always be faster than JS+html on heavy graphic. Unless HTML5 finds a way to bridge that gap (maybe with dart?) but even then it's not highly probable and not in the near future anyway. And if it happens, Apple could still offer those HTML5 apps as stand alone apps in their app market. Sure, people would be able to get them from the web, but the the market exposure will still be a big boost for developers and so the wall garden will still be there. Look at the apps Google removed from the Android market, they got significant less downloads as people had to visit the app site to get them.