Building A First-Class App That Leverages Your Website: A Case Study

Mark Zuckerberg once said, "The biggest 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, long term, really excited about it." And who wouldn't be excited by the prospect of a single code base that works across multiple platforms?

Unfortunately, Facebook felt that HTML5 didn't offer the experience it was looking to build, and that's what it's really about: the experience. I believe what Mark was really trying to say was that their biggest mistake was making a technology-driven decision instead of a user experience-driven decision. At the end of the day, we should be making decisions that deliver value to our customers, and sticking to a particular technology is generally not the best way to achieve that.

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