This reminds me "Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108294 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210829

This reminds me "Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108294 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108294 It's about drawbacks of using Adobe AIR as kind of a cross-platform shortcut for building apps. From such perspective HTML is really not that different. If you want to deliver the best possible user experience, native apps is the only option in a lot of cases. In a way that is good news for developers since it creates niches.