I'm tired of this meme. I bought an iPhone because it's a browser with a permanent 3G connection. I use gmail, google reader, wikipedia, iPlayer and many other web apps that are simply saved bookmarks. Despite the initial app goldrush the few free apps that I've installed seem to be ad supported and are generally simple enough that they would probably work fine as Html5 apps.

Obviously some apps, notably games, need native access but the initial bitching came from existing Mac developers with Cocoa experience. The big problem For everyone else was lack of access to iPhone hardware features via JavaScript.