[wesleyfsmith]

Ehhhh, I really haven't had these issues with any of the meteor apps I've made. Even getting swiping and full page animation transitions has been relatively simple. My experience is anecdotal, but I actually left being android developer to do mobile web and I've found the experience to be far easier.

[rimantas]

  > Even getting swiping and full page animation transitions
  > has been relatively simple

This is telling. These things are FREE on native. Like no effort at all.

[needz]

Similar experience here using Meteor + Ionic, exported with Cordova. I also feel like the skills I'm developing in web development are much more widely applicable than learning a particular mobile OS.

[hypercluster]

I often hear this. I tend tp agree but what exactly do you mean? That Javascript is used more widely?

[saiprashanth93]

Exactly this. I guess for people who have built their careers building mobile apps they couldn't care less about more rounded skills(in relation to web at least), its mostly full stack/back-end devs who know JS seem to state this. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[needz]

You hit the nail on the head -- I am a full-stack/back-end dev. Always prepared to learn the next thing (provided it's in javascript, hah).

[zghst]

Easier, yes. The tools for web development are awesome and amazing, but there's so many restrictions and limitations that come with the web. Maybe the web is the way forward, but native will be kicking its ass (regarding experience) for a long time.

[copperx]

80% of "experience" is micro-interactions, which are mostly nice-to-haves.