Saying Apple is more favorable towards mobile web development is quite a bit of a stretch. WKWebView simply gave developer access to the webview underneath Safa

Saying Apple is more favorable towards mobile web development is quite a bit of a stretch. WKWebView simply gave developer access to the webview underneath Safari, and replaces the outdated UIWebView. Apple recently introduced Swift, an entire language framework that's aimed at native app development. User experiences is the where the biggest gap between web apps and natives are (average users don't care about seeing that https at the top). Web apps also cannot adopt the latest hardware features as quickly as native frameworks can (TouchID, 3D Touch, etc). So for a platform like iOS (and Android to a large extent) where it's all about vertical integration and optimization, we'll see cutting edge native apps for a long time. I'm not saying mobile web doesn't have its place, and there are plenty of terrible apps out there that should just be a mobile website instead, but native apps do have certain advantages that won't be matched anytime soon.