[tyingq]

I'm somewhat curious if native mobile apps might start falling out of favor...at least for apps that mostly pull outside data.

I see the advantage for things that run fully (or mostly) locally, like games.

I don't really understand the advantage for other types of applications. Airline apps are a good example. Everything that's interesting about them requires live data that isn't stale. Yet these types of apps are very popular. I assume browsers will start closing on whatever functional gaps make it this way. The wasted time/effort to create 4 distinct experiences (desktop, mobile web, IOS, Android) irks me.

[feech]

To me, personally, its the trade off. A well built responsive HTML based UX is the easiest development approach. The thing that concerns me is that I don't know how much "easier" mobile dev can get, and I don't think it can come anywhere close to raw web based dev. So I concur :-)