[IkmoIkmo]

Yeah that was when the Iphone was first released in 2007, continued for a while. But by 2011, the app store was already becoming a behemoth, a huge source of profits for Apple, an effective content-curating tool and a close Apple-unique marketplace that they could compare to the Playstore and say 'we've got more and better content, get an iOS device'.

In other words, by 2011 nobody at Apple was telling developers 'web apps instead of native please'.

Meanwhile, in the past years they did effectively cut things like WebGL on iOS because it was a threat to native app performance in the browser. (iOS 8 finally, long overdue, changed this, now that the app store is there to stay.) Or say blocking Nitro on anything but Safari, say Chrome, not a problem for regular websites, but a problem for JS heavy web apps.