It didn't though. Steve Jobs’ vision of simple web applications was realised with the first iPhone. Native applications added to that, they didn’t take it away.

It didn't though. Steve Jobs’ vision of simple web applications was realised with the first iPhone. Native applications added to that, they didn’t take it away. This idea that web applications only “count” if they can send push notifications is bizarre. You know everybody was building web applications just fine without push notifications before 2009, right? And that native iPhone applications didn’t have push notifications either to begin with? Just because Apple added push notifications to native iPhone applications, it doesn’t mean that all web applications suddenly ceased to be “real” applications because they couldn’t do it yet.