[andrekandre]

  > Apple used their power to make strangle the entire idea of the web on mobile by putting a break on change. 

but this seems to neglect the fact that

  1. apple/jobs wanted web tech initially for apps
  2. native app devs were beating down the doors for access to native, not web apis

[radicalbyte]

That was very very early on. Once they were big and Android came along the strategy was turned around.