[tomkr]

I agree, people are making it look like these applications are used to outsmart Apple or something. While in fact when the iPhone was originally announced Steve Jobs encouraged webapps, as there was no native SDK available yet. Sure, Apple likes their 30%, but it's not like they are trying to prevent you from running webapps. I think with some high-profile examples people will start to get used more to fancy offline capable apps straight from the web. That might make the whole app store hurdle look a little smaller.