I know Jobs tried to talk up webapps as being the future at the time, but apps were very clearly coming - it was touted as a computer for your pocket, there's n

I know Jobs tried to talk up webapps as being the future at the time, but apps were very clearly coming - it was touted as a computer for your pocket, there's no way they weren't going to let people write software for it. And if they didn't, then someone else would make one that could, and completely eat their lunch.