When the iPhone was first released, there wasn’t an App Store. During the announcement at WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs said that web apps would be the only development platform for the iPhone. The decision obviously didn’t stick, with Apple announcing the App Store just a year later, but it started the idea of mobile-first web apps (that weren’t basic WAP sites).
Steve Jobs telling developers to make web apps
Now, nearly ten years later, web apps have come a long way.
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