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Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps
tedlistens writes: To tackle the chicken-and-egg problem faced by the Windows Phone or Blackberry — you need an app ecosystem to gain market share, but you need market share in order to entice developers to your platform — Canonical, the creators of the free, open-source Linux-based OS Ubuntu, have taken a novel approach with their new phone, which will be launched in Europe next week: The phone — the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, made with Spanish manufacturers BQ — won't feature apps. Instead, it will have a new user experience paradigm called Scopes. These are "essentially contextual home-screen dashboards that will be much simpler and less time-consuming to develop than full-on native apps." For instance, the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark alongside music stored locally on your device, without strong differentiation between the two. The user experience, writes Jay Cassano at Fast Company, seems a lot more intuitive than the "app grids" that dominate most devices.
A clot of places that I use have native apps and i find the web based version, even on mobile is faster than the app. also a lot of time the content is not updated on the app in real time as the website. This is true in a lot of sports news apps and other informational based apps. Games on the other hand are different.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
The HTML5 pdf viewer, audio player, image gallery and video player built into my Firefox OS phone all function offline.
True, they're "apps" but there is no concept of "native" where everything is a webapp.