Whoever wrote that article doesn't know shit. A web based app is far better than a native iPhone app and here's why.

If you have a music service the ultimate goal is to sell music. Google don't currently sell music. It only stores but it's clearly obvious they want to sell music like iTunes and Amazon do and it's wildly known they are working on deals with the music industries.

If you have a native app you have to sell music through Apple. That means Apple take 30% of all your money. It's standard practice and happens all apps in the Apple App Store. Imagine if Apple were to make 30% of every song Google sold. That's crazy as Google would probably only have a 5% margin anyway so Apple would kill Google's music store before it launches fully and the price of iTunes music would constantly be cheaper for every song. It's exactly the same reason why about three weeks ago Amazon released a HTML5 web app book store which I must say is one of the most impressive offline html5 sites I've ever seen.

Facebook are doing exactly the same thing with their top secret project spartan. If you've never heard about it Google it. It's going to pwn. The future is HTML5 web apps. Amazon know this, Facebook know this and so do Google which is why they did this instead of an iPhone app.

I know RDR didn't write it but the author who did doesn't know shit.