[ryanisinallofus]

Latency and responsiveness are still a huge problem for all network-heavy apps.

We have a professionally used iOS app that relies on server data (the magical cloud) and the number one user complaint is speed. Creating your client on iOS rather than in HTML/JS doesn't give you any magical "Latency and responsiveness" user experience unicorns.

[glassx]

Distributed software will work perfectly, provided it works under perfect conditions :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...