Bah. Nonsense, I say. It's not about connectedness (most of the apps on my phone are pretty useless without connectedness), it's about UI capability and user

Bah. Nonsense, I say. It's not about connectedness (most of the apps on my phone are pretty useless without connectedness), it's about UI capability and user experience and energy consumption. On those measures, mobile browsers will never win, broadly speaking. Having said that, I tend to think that building a mobile version of a web app should go first because it's cheaper. Once you can show that there are customers using mobile, then you build native apps.