Phonegap is useful when you want to get a quick and dirty one off application launched. It lets your designers work in CSS which is very familiar territory. M

Phonegap is useful when you want to get a quick and dirty one off application launched. It lets your designers work in CSS which is very familiar territory. Most one off apps are more informational than interactive (Think conference schedule app) and phone gap is more than responsive enough. It supports enough basic api calls to do simple things like take a picture and stuff and does it well. Ruby Motion seems like what I wouid use for a stable long term code base for a new application. The difference being the product. The small one offs are usually supporting a bigger product (like a conference) and the long term code base is a product itself.