Comments on: Web Apps vs. Native Apps

By: Bill French

Bill French — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:33:26 +0000

Michael, good article.

I think web apps will make a huge leap forward in the coming 24 months but there will always be cases where native apps trump web apps. I created this dynamic spreadsheet to help my company decide which approach (native or web) was right in a given project scenario. http://ipadcto.com/mobile-apps-native-or-web/

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By: Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:42:24 +0000

The difference between web and native is in the UI and the “stickiness” and “slickness” of the app. The user experience is far better on native. Long term the web may catch up but in the near future I would suggest native over web.

By: Gen

Gen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:51:17 +0000

Thanks for these blogs posts. It does get confusing for someone trying to navigate all this on their own.

My next question around this topic is what’s the difference between a mobile site and an iphone app? How do I know which one I’ll need to or do I really need both?

By: Sebastian Werner

Sebastian Werner — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:24:07 +0000

Have you already heard of PhoneGap? That’s a pretty amazing technology combining most of the benefits from web applications and native applications. Basically you build hybrid apps where the whole app implementation is done in HTML5/JavaScript but pack the whole thing into a native app. The native app has additional bridge APIs to allow the JavaScript app to access more native features.

See yourself: http://phonegap.com/