<i>It’s funny to me how a few years ago we were all slamming Apple for not allowing native iPhone apps and forcing us to build web apps, and now we’re slamming them for forcing us to build native apps </i>instead* of web apps! Oh how quickly we forget…*<p>I think those of us who are slamming Apple over the iPhone development model are doing so because Apple is forcing us to do things. I'd be happy if they kept everything exactly the same, but allowed users to install <i>any</i> application from third-party websites.