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To be frank Google wants to actively discourage, native app development. And they are right, their vision involves everyone using Web as their source for information or applications.

The only issue is that internet is not as ubiquitous as they would want it to be. But wait for 2-3 years and then we will live in truly internet filled world.

Regarding iPhone, Apple wants to own all parts of their users experience, which is even worse than having crapware.

Apple is one of the most old-world corporate minded corporation. and wants resurgence of old large corporate entities like newspapers, etc. They want an internet which is about selling stuff by large corporations to general consumers and not about sharing information between people. They are the ones who slept with crappy companies such as EMI.

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>Apple is one of the most old-world corporate minded corporation. and wants resurgence of old large corporate entities like newspapers

Exactly. That's why when they released the first iPhone it didn't even have native apps. They said the web is where your apps are! Oh wait... that's the opposite of what you're saying.

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Apple only talked about web apps for a while because their native app SDK wasn't ready yet. Apple has never fully embraced the Web, preferring to stick with "rich" better-than-web UIs.