Web apps don't have to be as "good" as native apps to succeed. They just have to be good enough. Remember that web mail exploded in popularity in the late 90s.

Web apps don't have to be as "good" as native apps to succeed. They just have to be good enough. Remember that web mail exploded in popularity in the late 90s. Do you remember what the experience was like on Yahoo Mail in 1999? Full page refreshes on dial-up modems to see a single email. Yet people swarmed to Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and the like.