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by marknutter 4468 days ago
My take on this is that phones are only getting faster and people upgrade their phones far more frequently than they do their laptops/desktops. Compare what you're able to do with HTML5 apps today on modern phones to what you could do even 2 years ago and it's astonishing how fast things are progressing.
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tluyben2 4468 days ago
In the end HTML5 will work fine on phones. That'll take a few years yet though; currently it's shit. It's ok on an iPad, but compared to native, not so much. I like nice responsive HTML5 or HTML5 apps for stuff I use sometimes; like booking tickets, hotels, checking what's on TV and such. For stuff I click in all day long, like bugtrackers, PM systems, CRM, etc, HTML5 on mobile or desktop, is just wasting time. It's just not very nice to work with productively. This is improving fast on the desktop by building in provisions for being (temporarily) offline, easy drag & drop, offering small native plugins to interact with it, but it's not there yet.

On phones it's far from being a nice and productive experience; you can see that well when you 'quickly' check a task and end up trying to swipe something 10 times because it lags and swearing profusely. Which happens with all badly 'cross platform' written apps which are mostly HTML5.

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mike_hearn 4468 days ago
HTML5 was supposed to be the answer when the iPhone 1 was first announced. It still sucks many years later. Draw your own conclusions ....
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forgotAgain 4468 days ago
That's analogous to the advance of desktops. The hardware kept getting faster ("what Intel gives") but at the same time the software became more complex ("Microsoft takes away"). If you deliver software based on it performing better on future revs of hardware, you're going to get a reputation for delivering pokey software.
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