[strmpnk]

I've seen quite a few apps written in phone gap work really well on iOS devices. I think many people are surprised how well an apps experience can be with this tech... granted, lots of people don't know that large numbers of apps are really just a web view wired to a minimal obj-c shell so I think the approach is pretty successful if not the framework itself.

[eddieplan9]

A counter-example is Safari To Go - Safari Book Online's iPad app, which they withdrew due to bad review: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari...

Most people agreed that PhoneGap was the wrong framework. It's not that PhoneGap is intrinsically bad - it is not - but that it is not for every task, and more likely, it is not good for most tasks that are more than a short load-lookup-leave cycle.