No one gave a crap about web apps for the iPhone because they all wanted to develop apps that took advantage of phone features. (Which Apple has been making more and more accessible to web apps anyway.)<p>The entire scare here is that the iPad will make <i>personal computing</i> a closed ecosystem. But the web is already where most people spend most of their computer time, and Safari is an excellent and standards-complient browser.<p>No, you won't develop web apps <i>for</i> the iPad. You'll develop web apps, period. For the web. Which people will use on iPads and any other computer they please.<p>The battle that matters is keeping web standards open. Consumer operating systems can be as closed as they like, as long as they come with a compatible browser.