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I've been considering an iPhone-native app for a web app I'm creating. But honestly, I've never been enamored with the App Store. Submit for approval? Gimme a break. Instead, I plan on developing a targeted UI for Safari on the iPhone. If that's not sufficient, I may begrudgingly go with a native iPhone app.

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The one thing that has always bothered me is I don't see why Apple can't put a hook into Mobile Safari that allows a web app to take pictures. I mean, it's not rocket science. A dialogue that says "this web app is trying to access your camera" and a simple file upload (camera takes picture and uploads the file like normal) is all that's required.

If Apple added that I would see very little reason for native apps (aside from games)

What's interesting is this is the same way Microsoft got into trouble. A developer says, "It would be really neat if..." and then the playing field isn't level anymore. Allowing a web app to take pictures with Safari would be sort of neat, but then you've got other browsers that can't compete fairly. Next thing you know you've got a bunch of people griping about lock in, lack of standards and Embrace/Extend/Extinguish, etc. I'm not sure if it's right or wrong- just saying it's next to impossible to keep people happy.

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