A long time ago when iOS dev tools were immature Joe Hewitt created https://github.com/facebook/three20. I can't find the source, but somewhere Joe is quoted that so many of the early Facebook application reviews were about how so much of it was derivative.
There is absolutely a place for this kind of library and if you pay enough attention to the details (sweat every pixel and animation) I fully believe that you can achieve an experience that would be completely indistinguishable from iOS.
Notes:
1. For this to work you should be using something like Ember as your front-end framework, not jQuery Mobile.
2. I'm not pushing this as dogma, I'm just very glad that it exists within the ecosystem.
There is absolutely a place for this kind of library and if you pay enough attention to the details (sweat every pixel and animation) I fully believe that you can achieve an experience that would be completely indistinguishable from iOS.
Notes:
1. For this to work you should be using something like Ember as your front-end framework, not jQuery Mobile.
2. I'm not pushing this as dogma, I'm just very glad that it exists within the ecosystem.