I don't agree with this at all. If it were true, they would be nerfing mobile safari rather than upgrading it like they did in ios6. What they are aiming for is

I don't agree with this at all. If it were true, they would be nerfing mobile safari rather than upgrading it like they did in ios6. What they are aiming for is the absolute best experience on mobile (as they always have, no matter what the platform), and right now this is through native apps. As the web grows and matures and html5 adoption becomes more widespread, the web will overtake apps and apps will become wrappers for web interfaces.