Currently, best practices are web apps for light user interaction, native apps for heavy user interaction or complex graphical presentation, and hybrids (native

Currently, best practices are web apps for light user interaction, native apps for heavy user interaction or complex graphical presentation, and hybrids (native app that is essentially a container for a webview) for best-of-both. My money is on hybrids for the near term. A native app with a webview gives you a lot of local control but still leverages the server power and advantages of centralized web apps. The Youtube examples mentioned in these comments are a parallel of this approach (I doubt they use webkit, probably just access the streaming protocol, but effectively similar). I'd love to hear some comments/opinions on these thoughts!