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Gmail as a web app is pretty awful. Web apps have improved somewhat, but in general they suck a lot compared to native apps. Web developers want the web to tak

Gmail as a web app is pretty awful. Web apps have improved somewhat, but in general they suck a lot compared to native apps. Web developers want the web to take over from apps, in spite of the fact that the market has CLEARLY chosen native apps over web apps. Web apps had a year and they gained no traction. Compare that to the native apps traction: huge difference. Wishing it were not so does not change that. The future lies in native shells mixed with HTML5, and this is just for portability reasons.

pornel 16y ago
It's not that CLEAR to me. Native apps are popular on iPhone because Apple promotes App Store heavily. App Store is on every iPhone screen, in every iTunes copy. From technological perspective superiority of Cocoa it's not that clear either. In my "native" application I've used WebKit views in many places, because it was easier for me to create complex layouts in CSS rather than Cocoa views.