Bandwagons seem to be increasingly popular. The latest surrounds the fact that Apple is intentionally slowing Web applications to make native applications from the App Store more appealing.

Only it’s not a fact.

First we had suggestions that Apple were slowing HTML5 in mobile Safari.

http://m.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/app-store-html5-slowdown/

Then we have The Register quoting a developer:

Citing a conversation with Apple, one developer told us earlier this week that the company did not intend to add all of Safari’s optimizations to the embedded web viewer. “Apple is basically using subtle defects to make web apps appear to be low quality – even when they claim HTML5 is a fully supported platform,” the developer said.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/apple_confirms_ios_webview_apps_dont_include_same_optimizations_as_safari/

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