There has been quite a lot of reporting on the origins of the iPhone since then, and from that work it is clear that they really did not intend to allow native

There has been quite a lot of reporting on the origins of the iPhone since then, and from that work it is clear that they really did not intend to allow native apps on the phone. They had to reassign resources to make it happen in a hurry once they changed their mind, which resulted in shrinking and delaying that year’s OS X release.