Ever hear of these things called "app stores?" I hear they make pushing apps quite seamless.
Apparently, these things called "app stores" are so good, that on these new things called "mobile devices," native apps are more popular than web applications!
Sorry for being a pedantic. Updating applications is quite painless on every platform except for Windows. (On Mac, you can use the app store or include Sparkle in your application.) It's only Windows that makes updating difficult; and this is the fundamental weakness of the operating system.
I've heard plenty of people on HN bemoan the process of pushing updates out via Apple. You can have a critical bug (yes, yes better testing), but it can take the store up to a week to review, approve and deploy your app. Sure there are ways to expedite that, but should you have to be so concerned?
To me there should be a bit of a feeling when to use native vs web on mobile. If you're making a fairly static, pretty booklet app, I'd use web. Cordova makes this simple and clean. If your moving much beyond that, from personal experience, I'd go native. I've tried all of the free-to-type hybrids. The tools try to smooth over the issues of complex API centralize business logic in JS while having multiple views to target different OSs. Sadly, most only really support iOS. For example, Ionic tries to support Android, but it's general appearance is iOS. Appcelerator is the same.
Apparently, these things called "app stores" are so good, that on these new things called "mobile devices," native apps are more popular than web applications!
Sorry for being a pedantic. Updating applications is quite painless on every platform except for Windows. (On Mac, you can use the app store or include Sparkle in your application.) It's only Windows that makes updating difficult; and this is the fundamental weakness of the operating system.