App is Crap - Why Apple is bad for your health

February 2010 was a very long time ago by mobile standards; this article is full of assertions that are no longer true. Many that were dubious at the time, plus many points that might have been valid once but have since been overtaken by later events.

For instance: Flash on mobile never gained much traction anywhere and now that Adobe has killed it, it's not a drawback to developing on iOS. Palm Pre and RIM are effectively dead too so you don't need to develop for them. Yes, Google Voice did get pulled from the App store for a little while but it's back in now. No, Apple is not a bottleneck for corporate deployments - they have a separate process for that now. And so on.

Also: "Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network?" Answer: It doesn't.

Don't assume any of the confidently-made statements in the article are actually true unless you've checked them.

My hope is that html5 and javascript get fast enough and toolkits get awesome enough so that they disrupt native apps.

It's just right now for mobile, apps can be so much nicer and more capable than their web-based counterparts.