[nerdyworm]

Haven't we seen this movie before? At one point the web was a complete joke to the average user and now we have an incredibly diverse ecosystem of web applications.

I think that applications that require high performance will always require a native app, but for the simple business applications out there mobile web apps will certainly do just fine. The devices will get faster, the designers will work out the user interface issues, and the programmers will make it easier.

The next five year will be dominated by native mobile apps, after that I really don't think we are all going to continue to pay the expense of developing on multiple platforms.