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With mobile and social gaming growing like gangbusters, millions of new gamers are coming to the platform for the first time, which represents a huge untapped market opportunity.

I've long thought that games would be the last bastion of native apps.

But when you consider that most mobile games are barely more sophisticated than the Flash games people have been making for years and that you're potentially leaving a ton of money on the table if you only build for one platform, it makes a lot of sense to try to push all this into the browser. In-app purchases are key but there's no reason you can't jimmy these into a PhoneGap layer.