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He was late to the party. Everyone by that time was trying to make applications and web development converge. Mozilla had an entire framework derived from the web.
Jobs, whether or not he truly believed in that, gave the potential of web apps and HTML5 as the reason an App Store wasn't needed. And definitely the reason Flash wasn’t needed.