iPhone App Store has got yet another bigger functional niche, as prodigious as many other wondrous virtues iPhone itself has, known as iPhone web apps (short of web applications). iPhone web apps combine the power and versatility of the internet with the functionality and simplicity of Multi-Touch technology. The iPhone web app corner of Apple Store currently owns several hundreds of web apps.

Just think of an app need and you can find an iPhone web app to fulfill it. You get them in all the regular app categories such as entertainment, sports, travel, news, productivity, search, utility, and so on, allowing you to further customize your iPhone in the most ways possible.

YouTube, AOL, ESPN, Reuters, NASA, and the online giant Google – everyone is with web apps, so is Apple now that has very well perfected this concept. There were Java and Python web apps and web apps were getting designed for practically every Web 2.0 friendly programming language, but iPhone compatibility was always in question. With iPhone providing tools to write iPhone compatible web apps, web apps have got a confirmed iPhone nativity.

The route for distributing web apps on the Apple site is simple. Any iPhone-savvy web developer can sign up for a free online membership to Apple Developer Connection (ADC) and submit his iPhone web program for the users to enjoy. What more, Apple offers clear, extensive guidelines and instructions on producing iPhone-worthy web apps so that one really can put his best work to the iPhone web app collection. You also get a lot of web app promotion and marketing literature on the internet to help you out in winding up on the most iPhones possible.

In the end, just a small picture of what you can get by downloading iPhone web apps to your iPhone home screen:

• Movie show times
• Public transportation routes, schedules, and fares
• Latest sports news
• Lotteries
• Stock updates
• Fuel prices
• Food recipes
• Household management tips
• Employment and recruitment
• Latest ringtones
• Blog updates
• Gaming with all the popular games available to download, like Chess, Sudoku, and Tic-Tac-Toe, and modern video gaming
• Connecting on popular social networking and social bookmarking sites