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Re:Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature by flyosity on Thursday September 29, 2011 @02:58PM (#3053759)
The native version is mostly UIWebViews embedded within a tab bar controller showing the mobile web app.
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Re:Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature by annekate on Thursday September 29, 2011 @10:08PM (#3055249)
This is actually just wrong. Compare them side by side and you'll see that the web view components in the iPhone app have been specially designed and constructed for the app.

See http://www.quora.com/Why-is-most-of-Quora-for-iPhone-a-wrapp...

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Re:Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature by Zev on Thursday September 29, 2011 @04:04PM (#3054035)
If I hadn't had it explicitly pointed out to me that the app is a bunch of web views, I would have thought it was a ton of Core Text drawing going on behind the scenes.
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