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Re:The Decline of the Mobile Web by habosa on Monday April 07, 2014 @10:56PM (#7551199)
As lugg said, it took a long time for web apps to rival native apps in functionality, and there are still a lot of places where they don't (large files, graphics, etc). In ~3-5 years the class of web apps that are lightning fast on desktop now will be fast on mobile.
Re:The Decline of the Mobile Web by blueskin_ on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:46AM (#7552553)
>and there are still a lot of places where they don't

This would be better phrased as "and there are still only a few places where they do". Google Docs, for example, is great for basic collaborative editing (as long as you don't mind the NSA reading it), but has a UI that it a total pain (especially the world's worst keyboard shortcuts, e.g. having ctrl-enter and shift-enter reversed, and completely lacks advanced features.