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As an iOS user, one thing I surely don't want are more web apps. The web is for content (including APIs Robbe used by native apps) not for apps, if on desktop or mobile. Here's why:

- lower performance. It can't be as fast as native as long as there's still the browser underneath - non-native experience. I use iOS because I like it better than android. I like the UI and UX, how it looks and feels. I don't want an web app, with an UI feeling different, looking different and behaving different. - multi-platform. All platforms will never have the same capabilities and features. You will always have to use the least common denominator or hack your things around.

Apple provides ObjC and Swift, the latter being a terrific way to develop apps, in my humble opinion a far better language and environment than JS (or JS). Just use it, your users will thank you.




> It can't be as fast as native as long as there's still the browser underneath - non-native experience.

This is going to radically change with Webassembly, stay tuned.




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