This avoids the one major reason that I think most developers choose to develop native apps - how much easier it is to charge for it.
This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
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Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#12Even this highly simplified view changes once you have the app installed. With a native app, you have an icon right there on the user's home screen. The web app would require more typing and clicking.
On iOS you can hit the plus button on any web page to add it to the home screen, making an icon right there on the user's home screen.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#13Oh man, they should really tell Instagram / Angry Birds that their software will work as a webpage and that the user experience on a mobile browser will be that much better.
Uh, Angry Birds quite obviously works as a web page ( http://chrome.angrybirds.com/?version=hd ), haven't tried it on either mobile or computer browsers though. Just wanted to point out that even high-profile games such as that are indeed becoming available as web pages.
I have never once gotten the browser version to work on my Chromebook.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#14Almost all of those negative points apply to the right column as well.
Should add a few, too, like "hope wireless connection works well or that developer properly prepared manifest," or "hope the developer didn't just assume 'web app' meant 'test in Safari Mobile only,'" etc.
And not just that but not all the native apps have-to-have-an-active-internet connection vs. a web based app.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#15Am I the only one getting fed up with these stupid "religious" wars in much of the IT world?
There are many valid cases where native is the better approach and others where web-app is best ! Any decent developer will do their homework and select appropriately.
BTW - many of the 'problems' high-lighted on the graph apply to both Native and Web-apps and there are some additional ones with Web-apps but I can't be bothered to spell them out. Bah !!
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#16Oh man, they should really tell Instagram / Angry Birds that their software will work as a webpage and that the user experience on a mobile browser will be that much better.
Games have always been better native, but lets be honest besides game, probably 95% of apps really can be done as web pages.
The question isn't "can it be done", but "can it be done well". Windows Mobile 5.0 could do 95% of what the iPhone could do (and a fair bit more). The iPhone did almost all of that 95% overlap better. Better can be the difference between a niche product and a product that changes an industry.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#17Even this highly simplified view changes once you have the app installed. With a native app, you have an icon right there on the user's home screen. The web app would require more typing and clicking.
On iOS you can hit the plus button on any web page to add it to the home screen, making an icon right there on the user's home screen.
This is true in Chrome, Windows and ChromeOS as well. Android probably does too, although I don't know for a fact. The notion that a web app is "just a web page" is really starting to fade away.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#18Native apps are going the way of the dodo; where they survive I expect a universal browser interface ala phonegap.
Re: This is so wrong at so many places. Web App vs Native App (Infographic)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Games have always been better native, but lets be honest besides game, probably 95% of apps really can be done as web pages.
The question isn't "can it be done", but "can it be done well". Windows Mobile 5.0 could do 95% of what the iPhone could do (and a fair bit more). The iPhone did almost all of that 95% overlap better. Better can be the difference between a niche product and a product that changes an industry.
I don't think anyone will argue with you that the touch interface that the iphone came out with was revolutionary. the better comparison is Android vs iPhone. While you say this, the regular phone is still more abundant than the smart phone.
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#20Am I the only one getting fed up with these stupid "religious" wars in much of the IT world? There are many valid cases where native is the better approach and others where web-app is best ! Any decent developer will do their homework and select appropriately. BTW - many of the 'problems' high-lighted on the graph apply to both Native and Web-apps and there are some additional ones with Web-apps but I can't be bother…
> Am I the only one . . .
If you have to ask this question, the answer is probably no.