Google has always been a major player when it comes to the iPhone. The iPhone came loaded with YouTube, Google Maps, and a extremely simple method to sync up your Gmail account with your iPhone. Upon launch, many of Google’s web applications were ported over for use with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser.

According to the Vice President of Google’s Engineering department, Google will be providing applications for the iPhone from day one of the release of iPhone firmware 2.0, and will make them available in the App Store. Most already assumed this would be the case. Google says that the iPhone has changed the way people will look at mobile web browsing.

That’s because according to Google, all mobile browsers are different. There are so many platforms, and so few use the same mobile browser. Google thinks that with how successful WebKit based browsers like mobile Safari, and the browser found on some Nokia devices, most manufacturers will adopt a WebKit based solution in the future as well. Google made it known that despite bringing native applications to the iPhone, they will still maintain and develop web based applications, as they do know.

[Via MacWorld]