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Amongst others, probably referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64

and

https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-d...

Whether it's revisionist history or not, there were later claims that Steve Jobs knew they couldn't have a native platform ready when the iPhone was first announced so they stalled for time to a) get the App Store ready and b) see what types of app ideas were popular to get those platform APIs finalized. The interim solution was web apps with recommendations to look at the Dashboard APIs in Mac OS X (which were basically web apps).