If it was how they were meant to work then iOS would have looked like WebOS, with all first party apps written in HTML and JS. The reason devs rejected Jobs' "

If it was how they were meant to work then iOS would have looked like WebOS, with all first party apps written in HTML and JS. The reason devs rejected Jobs' "write web apps" pitch, which was only ever about the SDK, store and APIs not being ready in time, was because it was so clearly not what Apple themselves were doing. Nor could they hope to match the quality of Apple's apps without using the same APIs.