Mark Zuckerberg on HTML5 vs. Native apps

Wednesday, 12th September 2012 by Simon. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the bigest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native…because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.Mark Zuckerberg at Disrupt SF 2012

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Android, facebook, HTML5, hybrid, ios, Mark Zuckerberg, native, Web

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