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by davidmurphy 5949 days ago
Interesting. Let me ask the HN community this: I am exploring a niche web video startup that targets a demographic that would lend itself to having an iPad/iPhone app.

Here's the question though: should I plan to actually code an app, or should I just go for HTML5? What would you do?
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gte910h 5948 days ago
You can do an app pretty quickly actually.

The livestreaming tech isn't hard. (If you check out my profile, there is an email there which will forward to my work account, we do that sort of work there, so my advice is not completely unselfishly motivated) and it does adjust pretty well between different network conditions.

I'm not an HTML5 expert though, so can't really offer you a contrast.

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stuartjmoore 5948 days ago
Definitely go for HTML5, mostly h.264, since HTML5, Flash, and iPhone all use that standard (for the most part). Plus, Palm WebOS and Android.

But, if you have the resources, you might as well have an app. Think of the App Store as free advertising.

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