What’s the Future? Native Apps or Mobile Web Apps?
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#2Good read. There is way to many native mobile apps out there that could have been mobile web apps.
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#3How does Readability (a web app) achieve the launch screen when run from the home screen on an iPad?
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#4How does Readability (a web app) achieve the launch screen when run from the home screen on an iPad?
under "Specifying a Startup Image": https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/Ap...
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#6> Can you name one great application the last 10 years that wasn’t a web app or a game?
Yes. Scrivener.
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#7> Can you name one great application the last 10 years that wasn’t a web app or a game? Yes. Scrivener.
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#8I think the biggest problem is that Apple has created the behavior of going to the appstore to find stuff, and until startups and developers stop going this route, or Apple really starts doing what they say, and promote HTML5 apps.. then the transition will be slow.
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#9I agree. There are too many road blocks for mobile apps to replace web apps.
Until you can solve the data input problem on mobile devices, and massive content delivery limitations by screen size, web apps will still rule.
When it comes to games, the computer vs. mobile device really isn't a fair comparison. They both solve different entertainment needs. One is an intense or shared experience need, the other is a casual time filler need. The concept of a portable gaming system is not new. Mobile games are just more accessible than previous systems.
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#10This doesn't address how to monetize a "mobile web app" - not a problem if you're just wrapping your marketing materials in a UIWebView like he recommends, but how do you make money off of a "real" app if it's "just a web page"? One-click purchasing through a store that already has your cc info is critical when we're talking about impulse Anyway, this is just patently untrue for many, many users:
But you know what? My dad doesn’t care about the deceleration of a scroll and neither does yours. Not mentioning the “native experience” of my brother’s ZTE!
Yeah, dad doesn't care about "scroll deceleration", but if the app feels clunky and unresponsive, they do care and won't come back. Again, it depends on whether we're talking about real apps that do something or just wrapped-up marketing pages.