Kind of a side-note but I have seen a few times something along the lines of "seeing the reaction to web-apps, Apple decided to release an SDK".
My opinion on this is that they had planned all along to have an SDK but, since it wouldn't have been ready on day 1, they said "oh no, make web-apps they're great!" so that developers would do something while they're finishing polishing the SDK.
Sure, I have no proof for this either, but it sounds unlikely that 1. they wouldn't have thought about it, 2. they would have been able to turn around an SDK in just a few months.
I agree. It's always seemed obvious to me that the SDK was planned from the start, not knocked together in a few months as a response to developer rejection of web apps.
My opinion on this is that they had planned all along to have an SDK but, since it wouldn't have been ready on day 1, they said "oh no, make web-apps they're great!" so that developers would do something while they're finishing polishing the SDK.
Sure, I have no proof for this either, but it sounds unlikely that 1. they wouldn't have thought about it, 2. they would have been able to turn around an SDK in just a few months.