app vs web app
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I think web apps are going to continue to grow and grow. Considering the fact that so many native apps are just web sites written for ios/android, it only makes sense.
Polymer for sure, and possibly a few other front end frameworks, have functionality in place for installing web apps that function perfectly offline. For lots and lots of apps that function like websites, this makes more sense.
For apps that use audio (music production), 3d, and possibly the camera, native is still the way to go, imo. Native will always be faster in those situations.
Another side to this discussion is the recent opensourcing of Apple's Swift programming language. Which I view as them providing a way to write apps for both ios and android with one code base. I don't think there's a compiler ready yet, but I'd bet on one being available soon.