Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps « cvil.ly

Interesting blog post arguing that mobile Web apps should stop trying to behave like native apps:

If you’ve decided to deliver your app via the Web, you should embrace the capabilities and constraints of the Web. Don’t spend time and resources making a pretender app, spend that time making a great app that works on the Web.

But make sure and check out the comments, some of which bring up some interesting counterarguments.

 

 

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s