But the dismissiveness towards web based mobile applications, fueled in part by Zuckerberg’s September comments, seems short-sighted. In an industry with little appreciation for either history or nuance, it is perhaps unsurprising that attitudes towards mobile/native tend to be so binary.

I’m still planning to create a mobile HTML5 version of my next web app, but I’m also building an API so that people can build client apps if they want.