[jaegerpicker]

Why would Apple or Google build such a thing? They are already both "winning" the market in their own metrics. They both have huge numbers of developers and have little interest in building tools that allow developers to work in a cross platform way. MS built the HTML5/JS tools because they are behind and need to attract every developer possible.

[yulaow]

Well because there are still more web developers out there than mobile (native) developers. So, in any case, it would help getting more apps in their store -> more happy users -> more money

[jaegerpicker]

They don't want more apps, they want more exclusive apps. The more exclusive apps the harder the lockin to the platform. Apple and Google both remember mid nineties Microsoft. Lock users in and ride that to dominance. It's seems like something I should be furious about but it's hard to angry when it helps to line my own pockets with cash. I can and have written native apps for both iOS and Android so that makes me very much in demand. I'd prefer an open web to win out but IMO native apps still give a much better user experience.

[zenbowman]

Yes, but web technologies generally forbid you from doing anything remotely innovative because of the way they are designed.

Most "web apps" work worse than most apps we had two decades earlier, both in terms of design and performance. If you want people to pay for software on the app store, it helps if you put some effort into making your app responsive and exploiting the machine you are on. The only way to do this is with native applications.

[yulaow]

And that's why I was talking about creating a framework that use javascript/html5 to create native apps, like winJS on windowsPhone