[gcb0]

that doesn't make any sense. All the limitations you mention also applied to apps.

the whole problem is that apple shipped native apps with tons of skeumorphism and animations, so all js frameworks for webapps spend all their efforts to simulate "slide animation on page change" instead of working on hiding the ajax latency or using local storage better.

and in the end, everyone just saw $$$ in using the closed apps from the store.