> You can spot a mobile app built with crappy web tech, because it is very slightly crappy. An app using web tech well would be indistinguishable from a native

> You can spot a mobile app built with crappy web tech, because it is very slightly crappy. An app using web tech well would be indistinguishable from a native one. I've seen many people remark that they can reliably spot a web-based mobile app, and this response is exactly what goes through my mind. My core rebuttal is that we generally don't get feedback about our guesses - we don't get corrected if we guess wrong about what powers an app. So maybe we'll correctly guess the most obvious cases, but that gives us false confidence about our overall accuracy.