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Mobile Web vs. Mobile App
Made Popular Apr 25 2008
Ironically one of the most used Mobile App is writing the script for demise of Mobile Native Apps ‘The mobile browser’. From Opera Mobile to iPhone Safari, Pocket IE to Symbian, browsers are getting more robust, and devices extremely powerful hence...
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Absolutely wrong.
Just look at iPhone. No apps were allowed. Developers were asked to build only web applications. What happened? iPhones were hacked, jailbroken and today we have thousands if not millions of iphone apps running on iPhones. Now Apple has no choice but to release the SDK.
You need to have native applications running, where you can`t find any coverage.
And what about Gaming?
I think we are going to see explosion of mobile native apps in coming days.
Just look at iPhone. No apps were allowed. Developers were asked to build only web applications. What happened? iPhones were hacked, jailbroken and today we have thousands if not millions of iphone apps running on iPhones. Now Apple has no choice but to release the SDK.
You need to have native applications running, where you can`t find any coverage.
And what about Gaming?
I think we are going to see explosion of mobile native apps in coming days.
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The biggest argument here is that OS fragmentation is making mobile native applications less profitable. But don`t you think same problem will be with hundreds of different browsers installed.
Desktop PCs have predominantly 2-3 main browsers, covering >95% of market share, but will it be true for mobile eco-system as well? I doubt.
We have already seen mobile web applications build for iPhone don`t have same experience when run on S60 browsers, even the base webkit engine is same.