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"Native apps are faster for some operations" s/some/all/

• kovar 16y ago
  s/all/some/ If you need significant CPU cycles or access to non-local resources, the web apps will probably be faster.
  • wmf 16y ago
    Any XHR that a Web app can do, a native app can do as fast or faster.
• tomkarlo 16y ago
  Apparently "all" doesn't include "loading", because one of the things that aggravates me most about apps on my iPhone is spending 3-5 seconds looking at a splash screen just to access one bit of data.
• nl 16y ago
  That's absolutely not true. I had the misfortune of working with Outlook on a virus checker infected system recently. That would take minutes to open. In the same time I could open a browser, open Gmail (or indeed the outlook web interface) and send an email, easily. Same with MS Word - misconfigured printer support on the same system would force it to time-out waiting for a printer before I could use it. In theory, native local apps are fast. In practice, with real world computers they often suck.