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Coyote Tracks: Tim Bray in the Garden of Good and Evil

Did you see what Bray did there? He talked about “the mobile Internet” and then about “the people who create the apps.” He’s equating “applications Apple approves for sale” with “the Internet.”

If your iPhone application wants to use an Internet protocol other than HTTP, or support a content type other than HTML/CSS/JPG/PNG/PDF/M4V/MP3, then the only way to do so is to build a native app and submit it for Apple’s approval.

HTML5 in MobileSafari can certainly meet a lot of needs, but it’s a mistake to think that “the Web” is the same thing as “the Internet”.

In other words, Bray was right.