> You wrap your app in Phonegap, and make json requests to
> the web if you need data from there.
You know what? I think you should try to do all those things you deem so easy, and then we can talk. Or you can google for phonegap success stories.
> For most things, desktop apps were replaced by web apps
Can you name a few? I was impressed with GMail in 2004, in 2012 I am using Sparrow to read and write my email.
> Instead, it will replace data/list style apps
In Cocoa Touch I have highly optimised UITableView for that. In HTML I have what, UL, OL and LI? And If I need to handle selection, edition, caching, cells with different layouts: HTML5 is still superior? Should I send markup over the web too? Or should I go mad trying to make offline cache work properly?
If I am doing native I have CoreData. If I am going web route what do I have, IndexedDB? Or do I?
>And If I need to handle selection, edition, caching, cells with different layouts
I'm not going to touch the rest of your comments but mutability of presentation is really not the place to wage your battle against HTML/CSS/JS from. Dynamic presentation is really web tech's strong point.
