Apps vs Web: Lesson from Zappos.com
summary
Built a native iPad/iPhone/Android shopping app plus an API in eight weeks for the first release, then three platforms in five months with three of us; Objective‑C live coding proves native dev is approachable and delivers 60 frames a second performance. A later mobile‑web rewrite becomes a brittle, 800‑line microframework and feels like a “crappy version” of the app, so the decision hinges on concrete results: actual build time, device testing (including older phones), and whether features work reliably, not on rhetoric.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:54How many apps have you written
- 6:38Creating a new project
- 13:11Building the app
- 17:21Native apps
- 24:44Semantic HTML
- 28:51Demo
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