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> This was an actual debate in the early days of app stores. Facebook was the most prominent company that decided to go with an HTML5 app instead of a native on
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> This was an actual debate in the early days of app stores. Facebook was the most prominent company that decided to go with an HTML5 app instead of a native one. Doing so was one of the biggest strategic mistakes they've ever made.
That was over a decade ago. Back then, Youtube was still using Flash (the HTML5 beta was only around a year old), JavaScript engines were way slower, Chrome was still using WebKit... HTML5 today is not what it was in 2011.
Even putting aside the fact that the web was "slower" in part because of the decisions mentioned in the article that are intended to encourage native app design, it's not a foregone conclusion that the same is true today.