The Phone and iPod apps are special, because at a fundamental level they perform tasks that cannot be duplicated in a web app. But there’s nothing any more spec

The Phone and iPod apps are special, because at a fundamental level they perform tasks that cannot be duplicated in a web app. But there’s nothing any more special about Mail than there is about, say, Calendar. He's wrong. The Mail app would be near and dear to Jobs because he wants to take over the market of Blackberry and similar devices also. Keeping a web browser open in order to receive mail pushed real-time from an Exchange server would be extremely awkward.