Yes, and it's extra painful that most "apps" on the "App Store" are just thin wrappers around web technologies anyway. You have to have an iPhone[1] or Android

Yes, and it's extra painful that most "apps" on the "App Store" are just thin wrappers around web technologies anyway. You have to have an iPhone[1] or Android because you "have to use the app" for lots of things from mobile food ordering to ticket purchasing -- and yet most of these apps have little to no native code, and despite our phones being 100x more powerful, these apps are more laggy than a BlackBerry or Sidekick app was, because they're bloated beyond belief. [1] From my experience, even Android is an iffy choice in America, because 99% of the execs here who allocate the resources in companies use iOS, so they don't mind when the Android app is barely usable. This is a peculiarity of the US though, elsewhere Android is considered equal or greater in importance.