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HTML5 is not going to replace native for things over time simply because it's not the default way to do things on mobile platforms. The best chance of HTML/JS everywhere was webOS, now FirefoxOS. Everything else thus far has been a hack, even if a very pragmatic one.

HTML5 for iOS/Android is like Flash or Java applets are/were for the web.

I'm not sure why web geeks hate Flash or Java applets so much and are trying to do the same thing for mobile apps.

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And the web highly relies on the native ecosystem. Since we have freedom of the native development on PCs, a number of browsers have been created and improving. However in mobile devices, that ecosystem is totally broken. When you have trouble with browsers on restricted OSs (such as iOS and Firefox OS), you can't do anything! I feel something like free riding is happening. This is far from "open" movement.

The web platform can't exist without native platforms after all, since browsers are native applications.

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