[programminggeek]

Agreed. One of the primary annoyances of HTML5/PhoneGap (as of a year ago or so), was that load times were slow and the UI wasn't as responsive as it should be. It never felt awesome to me.

For me, and maybe it's just me, I can build a much better experience using native code. I also can tweak some very small, but important details that HTML5 doesn't let me tweak.

If someone can create the same experience better, cheaper, and faster using HTML5, more power to them, but I can't, so I go native.

I haven't seen anything in the last year to say that a whole lot has changed. If anything, a lot of major projects have tried HTML5 and have "gone native". I realize there are plenty of projects that might prove the opposite, but when you are just one or two guys cranking out an app on iOS or Android, well you make the best decisions you can and move on.