When the iPhone debuted in 2007, developers who wanted to build apps for Apple’s smartphone had just one option—make a Web app that users would access through the phone’s built-in Safari browser.

Apple has been accused of undermining web app performance in an attempt to pressure developers into coding for its App Store, selectively enabling JavaScript engines in and out of the mobile Safari ...

Apple has a history of shipping 1.0 products that are amazingly great in some ways, and shockingly undeveloped in others. The iPhone, juggernaut of Apple products, was no exception. When it launched, ...