I've seen this argument so many times I've lost count.
If you compare an iPad app against a website, yes, the iPad app is better for the amount of effort put in. Now go and make an iPhone OS app, an Android app, a J2ME app, a Windows app, and a Mac OS X app, and you still won't reach as many users as with a single website.
Fracturing the web with browser-created SDKs will break the foremost feature of the web, and quite frankly, we've been there before and it didn't work out that great. Does any developer miss 1997, browser wars 1.0?
If you compare an iPad app against a website, yes, the iPad app is better for the amount of effort put in. Now go and make an iPhone OS app, an Android app, a J2ME app, a Windows app, and a Mac OS X app, and you still won't reach as many users as with a single website.
Fracturing the web with browser-created SDKs will break the foremost feature of the web, and quite frankly, we've been there before and it didn't work out that great. Does any developer miss 1997, browser wars 1.0?