The problem isn't with HTML5—as a consumer, I love it—it's that it's the ONLY way to interact with the system. HTML may be powerful these days but using javascr

The problem isn't with HTML5—as a consumer, I love it—it's that it's the ONLY way to interact with the system. HTML may be powerful these days but using javascript is still like eating nails, and compiling to javascript has many years to go before it's competitive with native in terms of resources. I.e. even though it's very attractive as the software company who has to maintain these platforms, HTML5 holds nothing for me: it's a wholly unpleasant development platform that has an absolutely absurd amount of money and man years behind it. Also, as a note, I think it's unhealthy to design phones to be closed off from the beginning. Apps are only a small subset of potential things to do with a computer.