FORGET APPLE: Google Voice for iPhone to Reemerge as Web App.

Browsers can do some amazing things these days. Hooray for the Internet. And WebKit. And Apple, for making such a revolutionary Internet-powered device, regardless of whatever may have happened with a certain App Store. Without the iPhone, we wouldn’t be where we are.

Native apps are great, but with HTML 5 becoming quickly the bandwagon for webdevs to jump on, it’s only inevitable lots and lots of hardware level support will be baked into the browser.

Think about using the keyboard and mouse on a browser. Not only do the browsers themselves interact with them (from a much more lower OS level), there are JavaScript event handlers for webdevs to tinker away at them (like onmousedown).

I’m waiting for a browser-baked camera doodad. You know, so I don’t have to depend on Flash for such things. At least <video> is included in html5… now if they would settle on a video codec…