Not necessarily. For apps that don't have rich UIs (i.e. apps that could practically be websites), WebViews can reduce cost by allowing you to use the same HTML

Not necessarily. For apps that don't have rich UIs (i.e. apps that could practically be websites), WebViews can reduce cost by allowing you to use the same HTML for both iOS and Android apps. So I think it's really more of a grey area depending on the situation. But yeah, I wouldn't want to write Excel in procedural C.