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>> TL;DR: "We tried to make a responsive web app act like a native app and it didn't work because it doesn't work, and that makes me a grumpy goose."

The first wave of designers who targeted print had the same trouble native app designers had and ended up building big blobs of flash applications.

Native app devs moving the responsive web route face similar troubles. I guess they can alleviate most of the cross platform, multiple screen and accessibility compatibility by relying on a framework.

In the mean a lot of native apps lack support for accessibility, multiple font sizes, and color schemes, ability of bookmarking a certain screen, ability of moving back and forth between screens, ability to open multiple pages (or screens) at the same time, better caching when mobile and offline, a way to hyper link within or across apps, support for various screen sizes from large to very small. So it could be better the native-to-web refugee to focus on the advantages of the plain old web which apps lacked.