It certainly was the best thing going at the time. All the Cocoa folks in
the audience groaned because they were itching to leverage their
advantage in having worked with the frameworks. But, I buy the
speculation that in the late months of 2006, Apple changed its mind
about how to get applications onto the iPhone.
On the app store side, you have a market where buyers are looking for
sellers. You still have to find a way to get mindshare outside of the
store. Still, as barely organized and swamped by numbers it is, there
are for greater numbers of web applications out there on the world
wide web and Google or Bing are the imperfect channels for people to
discover what is available to meet their needs.
Native interfaces can be more responsive so they have that going for
them. Web apps using HTML5 are mobile and pc friendly. Except you-
know-who is notably adamant about being the one person with the
browser that kinda does web standards, has a different request
object, uses a different DOM, and is explicitly sitting on their hands
about HTML5. Sadly, as a web developer, you have to do extra work
(read spend extra money) to not cut off the 60% of the customers who
use that browser (assuming your web application appeals to a
demographic that is a perfect slice of the world.)
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