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> a first-class citizen, has in fact set the mobile web back by years Steve Jobs started it. Everyone will follow it to the bitter end.

• mhurron 14y ago
  There's some revisionist history. When the iPhone was released, mobile apps were supposed to be HTML5 webapps. Developers cried for local apps. Apple responded to demand.
  • philwelch 14y ago
    The truth is likely somewhere in between. Apple probably anticipated the demand for native apps. But they weren't ready, business-wise if not technically, to build the SDK and App Store in 2007, so they held off on it for a year. Sometimes it's useful to pretend that what you were going to do all along was merely a concession to outside demand.
    • danssig 14y ago
      Steve Jobs said in the intro of the phone that the apps were "just the internet" or some such. Personally, when I heard that I just ignored the iPhone.
    • Joeri 14y ago
      The steve jobs bio documents how he was deadset against native apps, even after the iphone was released. Even apple has to listen to its customers / developers every now and then. The myth that apple's moves are all part of a big plan is just that.