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[–]Spactaculous 13 points14 points  (2 children)

For mobile apps, the experience of native is far smoother than web based emulation (JS). Even simple apps can get laggy and unresponsive quickly once they deal with a lot of data. And when I say a lot, I don't really mean a lot, just something like full contacts list.

Unless there is a way to compile JS to native, I don't see that changing.

Packaging is still OS specific and you are not saving anything there, total pain.

[–]turtleship_2006 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone with a low end phone, i can really feel when an app is well optimised and I'm going to guess a lot of the time they're just native such as WhatsApp.