After what we've seen lately it seems that many Apple users WOULD love it. The end users are the ones here getting hurt by these grudges - why can't they see it? There are great Unity3D, Appcelerator, and Flash apps that will never be made on the App store. How does that not bother you as an end user?

Heard of Google NaCl?

Yeah. Native code in a browser without the security implications.

And without all that pesky portability either.