> The web is for large quantities of stuff, with low signal to noise; desktop apps are for focusing Interesting point, noted! > YouTube does have a native iOS

> The web is for large quantities of stuff, with low signal to noise; desktop apps are for focusing Interesting point, noted! > YouTube does have a native iOS app, which I find to be much better [..] on my iPad Yup, hence my spelling out that there's no native desktop app. With mobile apps we have a few confounding factors: * less-powerful processors that may be unacceptably slowed down by the HTML/JS layer * immaturity of multitouch and notification APIs in JavaScript * limited (if any?) support for putting pure web apps on your home screen, or in an app store As the APIs mature and tablet and smartphone processors get faster, I expect there to be fewer and fewer reasons to do fully-native apps. But yes, of course, they do offer a better experience today.