Something about the entire basis of this article urks me. Maybe it is from me starting into mobile development, but in the end or near future, it is to mobile's benefit that applications are platform agnostic and live on the web. There will be circumstances where native development is beneficial, but there will come the time where the facebook app or the cnn app should no longer be relevant. So I'm not sure why in the long term this even matters, the only necessity is that the production is scaled to where they don't lose money. At the same time, I'm probably making this argument more for Ubuntu for phones than anything else.