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Actually, when the iPhone was introduced, Apple wanted it to have only a few select native apps (like Maps or Mail) and all the rest to be web apps.
They were browbeaten into opening an app store by the developers, who wanted to do native apps, not the other way around like you say.
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Actually, when the iPhone was introduced, Apple wanted it to have only a few select native apps (like Maps or Mail) and all the rest to be web apps.
They were browbeaten into opening an app store by the developers, who wanted to do native apps, not the other way around like you say.