Many "mobile" apps could very well be web apps.
PhoneGap is a solution to "wrap" a web app into a "native mobile" shell,
where native APIs are exposed to JavaScript,
such as camera and storage on the phone...
This was available for years, not new.
The news is that PhoneGap team is now part of Adobe
,and that its source is now open source, managed by Apache
,under new name "Callback" ("Gap" jeans trademark was a problem for PhoneGap name)
There is also a "build" service
that makes it possible to make "native" iPhone app even without an Apple Mac computer,
or windows phone app without a Windows PC.
This will make it even easier to make even more mobile apps.
While most of such apps are not very good, out of large quantity
there will be some benefit too... not least saving developers time...
One more thing: apparently there are more contributors to PhoneGap
from IBM than Natobi (now Adobe)...
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