> It's hard to overstate just how big of a leap the iPhone was. To date, the biggest single advancement in the mobile web has been Apple porting their open-sou

> It's hard to overstate just how big of a leap the iPhone was. To date, the biggest single advancement in the mobile web has been Apple porting their open-source WebKit to iPhoneOS (as Jobs put it: “a desktop-class browser”). Nothing else even comes close. Before the iPhone came out, the mobile web was virtually synonymous with shitty m.example.com WAP sites nobody wanted. In the space of about a year, everybody commissioning a website was asking for real, responsive mobile websites that worked on an iPhone. > Critics only focused on the shortcomings but neglected to see what it really was. Critics were sure the iPhone wouldn’t be a success until Mobile Safari supported Flash. They were certain Jobs would back down. About five years later, Adobe gave up on Flash on mobile.