There is also pain to test web apps for numerous browsers (so much fun on mobile) in term of security, popular browsers are in the top 10 of most exploited sof

There is also pain to test web apps for numerous browsers (so much fun on mobile) in term of security, popular browsers are in the top 10 of most exploited software so yeah the delivery model is nice, the update model too, but still I'm not convinced that the web model for apps is the "end all, be all" of app development I could even argue that more and more apps are coming back to native, first instigated by the mobile app stores, which then expanded to the desktop app stores. There is room for everyone, web apps and native apps, but still I would not want to use something like gmail as a browser app on my mobile.