Thursday, May 20, 2010

Web app vs Native app

Customer doesnt care what technology functionality is developed upon. Customer wants
  1. Performance
  2. Usability (fluid, intuitive UI)
  3. Offline ability (unreliable networks),
  4. Sense of ownership (my files, my apps - I may be wrong on this but currently this is the perception right now)
Way I see it is following and I am all for Native apps, at least in short term.
  • HTML5 apps - addresses developer's pain
  • Native apps - addresses customer's pain (all of the above)
Couple of relevant quotes from Google IO 2010
"These models are likely to converge in the future. And not the too distant future" - Sergey Brin
"Five years from now this question wouldn’t be a relevant question because it’s going to shift again" - Brad Feld

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