That's the point – it's intended as anything but a serious competitor to the native stack. The thing is, to make a simple widget app (comparable to the built-in weather app), you don't need the kind of low-level access that a complex game like Infinity Blade needs. When you're making something that could be built in HTML5, why should you have to bother with an NSAutoReleasePool?
There's room for a secondary, more abstracted dev environment for the iPhone. Palm is proving it with Ares.
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That's the point – it's intended as anything but a serious competitor to the native stack. The thing is, to make a simple widget app (comparable to the built-in weather app), you don't need the kind of low-level access that a complex game like Infinity Blade needs. When you're making something that could be built in HTML5, why should you have to bother with an NSAutoReleasePool?
There's room for a secondary, more abstracted dev environment for the iPhone. Palm is proving it with Ares.