[liscio]

I couldn't agree with you more. So many well-known sites are publishing terrible native apps for the iPhone which could have been much more effectively implemented by some CSS/js tweaks.

For instance, the PayPal app is utterly terrible, and gives only a fraction of the functionality you get from PayPal's full site. A few weeks, at most, could turn the PayPal site into an incredible custom iPhone web app.

And to add insult to injury, they don't even take advantage of the benefits that a native app gives you on the iPhone. For instance, they don't use the keychain to securely store login credentials so you don't have to re-login each time you launch the application (if the user requests it).