I believe that Google could make a great Google Gears iPhone app. This
approach to bringing Google Gears to the iPhone would be the best
approach because Safari does not include a plugin installer and will
not load a page at all without an Internet connection. However, a
Google Gears app would work very well. Users could type in the URL of
a Google Gears enabled web app and the Google Gears app would install
that app to the Google Gears app and add it to a list of installed
apps. The app could then function like a normal standard/mobile web
app. If API's were added for it, Google Gears apps could even take
advantage of iPhone OS features (push notification, geo-location,
multi-touch controls, etc.). This soul make a Google Gears app for
iPhone a very useful app that many people would like. What would make
it even better was if it could be integrated with the Google Mobile
app (possibly as a single app?).
