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Completely agree. In addition to saving on development costs by eliminating the need for specialized platform devs you also remove the app store Gods from the equation.

There's really only 2 reasons to have a native app: 1) to take advantage of hardware that you can't access otherwise and 2) screen real estate. The latter reason being a poor one to solely base the decision on.




Not to mention an easy way to charge for a service.


<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> solves 2) - you do have to bookmark first though...




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