Apps make it possible for brands and business to deliver optimized content to customers via smartphones and tablets. Of course, the user has to install your app on their smartphone first. But once ...

It's an eternal back-and-forth tug of war between native vs. Web apps in the mobile development arena. Announcements of major companies switching from one to the other abound. As do surveys claiming ...

Editor’s note: Anders Lassen is the founder and CEO of Fuse, the first native app tool suite for both designers and developers. Facebook just open-sourced its React Native framework for building ...

Google launched its Latitude app for Apple's iPhone and a interesting window on the Web vs. native decision process was open. The search giant's Latitude app tracks you anywhere you go (if you want) ...

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Mobile applications and websites have traditionally embraced different paradigms in terms of user experience. It's much easier to get users to visit a website than ...

When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you. When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that ...

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It’s the apps. The iPhone and Android conquered the world because of the apps. More specifically, what keeps Android and iOS dominant is the utter lack of those apps on competing platforms. But today, ...