I agree - single-purpose applications are only necessary if you want to take advantage of functionality beyond what a typical browser provides... which is a ver

I agree - single-purpose applications are only necessary if you want to take advantage of functionality beyond what a typical browser provides... which is a very small fraction of apps on the market. News publications tend to be the worst with this - if all I want to do is read your content, I'd rather just visit your mobile site, especially if you put all your resources into iOS/Android/etc. solely behind designing a good site. Sometimes, it seems like we're back in the 90s, developing for three different platforms (browsers) simultaneously... except we've regressed even more, because even less code is shared between the platforms (and now the server logic may even need to be tweaked to support all clients). The more things change, the more things stay the same....