> ...oh... do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time. He only suggested that at the time b

> ...oh... do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time. He only suggested that at the time because iOS had no app store. It was one of his cunning moments of misdirection and the sentiment didn't last. As a developer of both apps and web applications, I still don't think web applications are anywhere near the user responsiveness, capability and ease of development of native. And the supposed advantages of write-once, run-on-all-platforms is a total red herring. The amount of work required to ensure a web application written for, say, iOS works as smoothly on Android has in my experience dwarved that of writing native apps for both platforms. This could change in future, but at the moment it really feels a long way off.