<i>With mobile and social gaming growing like gangbusters, millions of new gamers are coming to the platform for the first time, which represents a huge untapped market opportunity.</i><p>I've long thought that games would be the last bastion of native apps.<p>But when you consider that most mobile games are barely more sophisticated than the Flash games people have been making for years and that you're potentially leaving a ton of money on the table if you only build for one platform, it makes a lot of sense to try to push all this into the browser. In-app purchases are key but there's no reason you can't jimmy these into a PhoneGap layer.