Nope. No, they most certainly do not. The web is SO GOOD at serving content. Really, really great at it. Games? Streaming live video? Super high frame rate UI

Nope. No, they most certainly do not. The web is SO GOOD at serving content. Really, really great at it. Games? Streaming live video? Super high frame rate UI animations? Not quite there yet. But man, it's a fantastic platform for delivering text to an outrageously broad array of devices. News sites don't need mobile apps. They need content people care about and a URL. Nothing more.