Not everybody hates skeumorphism, especially when not taken to an extreme (okay, Apple under Jobs often did take it to an extreme... like the leather Calendar app). But skeumorphism, when used properly, provides affordances and hints to the user.

> told developers that they don't need native apps because using HTML + WebView is enough

That's because the SDK wasn't ready for developers yet. You must remember that, first and foremost, Jobs was a great salesman. If you don't yet sell it, it's a piece of crap and unnecessary, right? And when you _do_ sell it, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I'm rather firmly convinced that the "they don't need native apps" was Jobs merely stalling til the SDK was stable enough to release to the public.

"The one who, at the first iPhone release, told developers that they don't need native apps because using HTML + WebView is enough, right?"

Nowadays we have plenty of people complaining that they have to have "apps" for everything when they have a perfectly good web browser on their phone, so he wasn't that far off.