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Mobile web vs. native:
It’s not about technology, it’s about psychology
@brian_donohue
This debate has been around a while - sort of
Remember when Virgin used to be cool?
http://url.ie/a1wt
Execs just want an
iPhone/Android app
How many of them are just vanity apps?
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
There have been some strong opinions
“ Native apps are a
remnant of the Jurassic
period of computer
history, a local maximum
that is holding us back.
The combination of a
discovery service and just-
in-time interaction is a
powerful interaction model
that native apps can’t begin
to offer.”
Gilt CEO told
him customers
are moving
from web to the
app because
it’s “faster,
simpler, more
immersive”
It’s all about the “App Internet”
Apparently no one else in his company agrees
Be wary -- this stuff changes fast
2011:
“Platforms are risky places to put your
business...If you can do it with the
Web -- do it with the Web. It’s
faster, cheaper, and easier.”
Web app masters tour, 2011: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1281
2010:
“(Website owners interested in developing an
iPhone app might start by developing an iPhone-
targeted website, where most of this book’s
design principles also apply.)”
Source:
http://url.ie/evp2
%
And let’s not ignore the bigger context here
of mobile phone users in the world use
their phone for SMS. SMS is the
primary use for mobile phone users
around the world.
85
time it takes for the average
SMS to be read after it’s sent
time it takes for the average
email to be read after it’s sent
4
Source:
http://url.ie/f18t
hours
48 minutes
Coke’s 70:20:10 rule for mobile:
• 70% to SMS and MMS
• 20% mobile internet
• 10% mobile apps
Of course -- what does Coke need an app for?
Data suggests it’s neck and neck
47.6% of mobile Internet customers use native
mobile apps and 47.5% use the Web browser on their
devices.
But it varies a lot
People are getting fed up with the debate
“While many people try to argue for one
side or the other, the truth is there are
great reasons for doing both”
OK - so it’s not a zero sum game
But we still have to choose an approach!
The logic that makes this seem obvious
Fragmentation
Going native is a policy of exclusion...
http://url.ie/a1xc
“We could probably save 70% of our
development budget by switching to a single,
cross-platform client
Phil Lebin, CEO
http://url.ie/a1xl
supports 5 native mobile platforms
“...all of these users on all these devices using Facebook mobile in the wide
rainbow of lovely different experiences across Android, iPhone, Windows, the
Web. That was great from a user perspective. What sucks? The
environment for my developers, essentially. You have the bad old days.
You have four different platforms to build for something essentially. You want to
build for all of those groups? You are going to have to build the sucker four
times.
Dave Fetterman,
Engineering Manager
http://url.ie/dj68
supports 4 native mobile platforms
Defining “native” vs. “mobile web”
Objective C HTML, CSS, JS
C ++
Java
works best on webkit browsers
Different platforms usually means
different people
Objective CJava
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Native isn’t always better
Native app only Both Web app only
 Gyroscope and
Accelerometer
 Accessing filesystems
(e.g. address book,
photos)
 Fully-immersive
experience (e.g.
gaming)
 Support in-app
purchases
(Apple takes 30% cut)
 Camera
 Smoother and more
responsive
 Store data offline
 Access GPS
 Have app-like UI and
transitions
 Accessible as app
from home screen
 Much easier to test,
prototype, and rollout
 Can update
immediately (no app
store approval),
customers don’t have
to update the app
 HTML 5 is continually
adding hardware
capabilities
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Who’s going with HTML 5?
The magic bullet?
So is this an easy one?
1. Your app needs to use the hardware
So let’s look at these criteria a little closer
Native app only Both Web app only
 Gyroscope and
Accelerometer
 Accessing filesystems
(e.g. address book,
photos)
 Fully-immersive
experience (e.g.
gaming)
 Support in-app
purchases
(Apple takes 30% cut)
 Camera
 Smoother and more
responsive
 Store data offline
 Access GPS
 Have app-like UI and
transitions
 Accessible as app
from home screen
 ??Findability??
 Much easier to test,
prototype, and rollout
 Can update
immediately (no app
store approval),
customers don’t have
to update the app
 Can link to the app
(e.g. SMS with link to
your bill)
 HTML 5 is continually
adding hardware
capabilities
This was reason we went native with Tayto
Gmail launched their native app in November
It didn’t go down so well amongst technorati
Panned in the reviews as well
Lesson: app expectations are
VERY HIGH
2. Frequency of use
Apps that people use the most - the habit forming ones
“As this data shows, while smart phone clients are
important, there are even more people who use the
mobile Twitter web site and/or SMS."
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Out of 425 million mobile users:
Just because you hope people
will use your app frequently, that doesn’t
necessarily mean they need a native app
3. Damn those links
Do you send out emails or SMSs?
Cries out for links to their
mobile app (if they had one)
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
The big disconnect
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
4. The experience is just better
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
It’s about the
animations,
the speed,
the feel, the
experience
of the whole
thing
A billion shared “moments”
Path
Instagram
What about their desktop experience?
Clear app/ The new cool?
Oooh, I can do that in HTML 5
http://clear.youyuxi.com/
Well, sorta / But not for any other phones
“The Web app and
native experiences
are very similar. We
had set out to mimic
the native app and
make the transition to
the Web app
seamless. Although
it was tricky to
achieve precisely
the same quality
(e.g., access to
apis), we quickly got
very close (say,
80-90% the same
user experience). We
have since stopped
development of the
native app and are
aggressively
developing the
HTML5 version.”
http://url.ie/ew19
You can actually do a lot of this with HTML5
But to (nearly) replicate the UI, you’re basically writing
code totally tailored to one device. It’s like a native
app, it’s just a different language.
And the experience will never be quite as good.
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
“It doesn’t feel like a real app”
Lesson:
If the experience is part of your
differentiator, you gotta make it native
5. Findability
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Maybe this will take off?
We still live in an app culture
The cold reality:
http://tripleodeon.com/2011/09/of-sites-and-apps/
People expect you to have an app
51
Source: http://url.ie/f1sk
apps
83 apps
Average iOS device owner downloads this many apps in a year
in 2011 in 2010
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
But hold on a second...
What that looks like
Are you going to be a top 10 app?
To download is not to keep, or use
iOS and Android users
The disposable app culture:
Download it,
use it once,
forget about it,
bin it
Why isn’t there a parallel debate
about whether to build for the
Mac App store or the desktop browser?
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Why isn’t there a parallel debate
about whether to build for the
Mac App store or the desktop browser?
Our app culture isn’t all that logical.
(What culture is?)
You need to be brave to tell your boss
that our customers won’t be able to
download our app from the app store.
Will we see our app culture disappear?
Brent Simmons - creator of NetNewsWire
http://url.ie/f35r
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology
The app culture:
Download it,
use it once,
forget about it,
bin it
So....
There are loads of reasons to go with the web
• Cost/effort
• Reach
• Links
• Complete control
But..
There are good reasons to go native:
• When you have to use the hardware
• When UX needs to be a differentiator
• When you won’t get found unless you’re in the app store
• (Many of us) live in app culture, albeit a disposable one
Be realistic,
be brave,
don’t go native unless you
know you really need to
iQ Content Ltd, Clarendon House, 34-37 Clarendon Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. +353 (0)1 677 1140
Thanks for listening!

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Mobile web vs. native apps: It's not about technology, it's about psychology

  • 1. Mobile web vs. native: It’s not about technology, it’s about psychology @brian_donohue
  • 2. This debate has been around a while - sort of
  • 3. Remember when Virgin used to be cool?
  • 4. http://url.ie/a1wt Execs just want an iPhone/Android app
  • 5. How many of them are just vanity apps?
  • 8. There have been some strong opinions
  • 9. “ Native apps are a remnant of the Jurassic period of computer history, a local maximum that is holding us back. The combination of a discovery service and just- in-time interaction is a powerful interaction model that native apps can’t begin to offer.”
  • 10. Gilt CEO told him customers are moving from web to the app because it’s “faster, simpler, more immersive” It’s all about the “App Internet”
  • 11. Apparently no one else in his company agrees
  • 12. Be wary -- this stuff changes fast 2011: “Platforms are risky places to put your business...If you can do it with the Web -- do it with the Web. It’s faster, cheaper, and easier.” Web app masters tour, 2011: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1281 2010: “(Website owners interested in developing an iPhone app might start by developing an iPhone- targeted website, where most of this book’s design principles also apply.)”
  • 13. Source: http://url.ie/evp2 % And let’s not ignore the bigger context here of mobile phone users in the world use their phone for SMS. SMS is the primary use for mobile phone users around the world. 85
  • 14. time it takes for the average SMS to be read after it’s sent time it takes for the average email to be read after it’s sent 4 Source: http://url.ie/f18t hours 48 minutes
  • 15. Coke’s 70:20:10 rule for mobile: • 70% to SMS and MMS • 20% mobile internet • 10% mobile apps
  • 16. Of course -- what does Coke need an app for?
  • 17. Data suggests it’s neck and neck 47.6% of mobile Internet customers use native mobile apps and 47.5% use the Web browser on their devices.
  • 18. But it varies a lot
  • 19. People are getting fed up with the debate
  • 20. “While many people try to argue for one side or the other, the truth is there are great reasons for doing both”
  • 21. OK - so it’s not a zero sum game But we still have to choose an approach!
  • 22. The logic that makes this seem obvious
  • 24. Going native is a policy of exclusion... http://url.ie/a1xc
  • 25. “We could probably save 70% of our development budget by switching to a single, cross-platform client Phil Lebin, CEO http://url.ie/a1xl supports 5 native mobile platforms “...all of these users on all these devices using Facebook mobile in the wide rainbow of lovely different experiences across Android, iPhone, Windows, the Web. That was great from a user perspective. What sucks? The environment for my developers, essentially. You have the bad old days. You have four different platforms to build for something essentially. You want to build for all of those groups? You are going to have to build the sucker four times. Dave Fetterman, Engineering Manager http://url.ie/dj68 supports 4 native mobile platforms
  • 26. Defining “native” vs. “mobile web” Objective C HTML, CSS, JS C ++ Java works best on webkit browsers
  • 27. Different platforms usually means different people Objective CJava
  • 30. Native isn’t always better Native app only Both Web app only  Gyroscope and Accelerometer  Accessing filesystems (e.g. address book, photos)  Fully-immersive experience (e.g. gaming)  Support in-app purchases (Apple takes 30% cut)  Camera  Smoother and more responsive  Store data offline  Access GPS  Have app-like UI and transitions  Accessible as app from home screen  Much easier to test, prototype, and rollout  Can update immediately (no app store approval), customers don’t have to update the app  HTML 5 is continually adding hardware capabilities
  • 34. So is this an easy one?
  • 35. 1. Your app needs to use the hardware So let’s look at these criteria a little closer
  • 36. Native app only Both Web app only  Gyroscope and Accelerometer  Accessing filesystems (e.g. address book, photos)  Fully-immersive experience (e.g. gaming)  Support in-app purchases (Apple takes 30% cut)  Camera  Smoother and more responsive  Store data offline  Access GPS  Have app-like UI and transitions  Accessible as app from home screen  ??Findability??  Much easier to test, prototype, and rollout  Can update immediately (no app store approval), customers don’t have to update the app  Can link to the app (e.g. SMS with link to your bill)  HTML 5 is continually adding hardware capabilities
  • 37. This was reason we went native with Tayto
  • 38. Gmail launched their native app in November
  • 39. It didn’t go down so well amongst technorati
  • 40. Panned in the reviews as well
  • 41. Lesson: app expectations are VERY HIGH
  • 43. Apps that people use the most - the habit forming ones
  • 44. “As this data shows, while smart phone clients are important, there are even more people who use the mobile Twitter web site and/or SMS."
  • 46. Out of 425 million mobile users:
  • 47. Just because you hope people will use your app frequently, that doesn’t necessarily mean they need a native app
  • 48. 3. Damn those links
  • 49. Do you send out emails or SMSs? Cries out for links to their mobile app (if they had one)
  • 54. 4. The experience is just better
  • 57. It’s about the animations, the speed, the feel, the experience of the whole thing
  • 58. A billion shared “moments” Path Instagram
  • 59. What about their desktop experience?
  • 60. Clear app/ The new cool?
  • 61. Oooh, I can do that in HTML 5 http://clear.youyuxi.com/
  • 62. Well, sorta / But not for any other phones
  • 63. “The Web app and native experiences are very similar. We had set out to mimic the native app and make the transition to the Web app seamless. Although it was tricky to achieve precisely the same quality (e.g., access to apis), we quickly got very close (say, 80-90% the same user experience). We have since stopped development of the native app and are aggressively developing the HTML5 version.” http://url.ie/ew19 You can actually do a lot of this with HTML5
  • 64. But to (nearly) replicate the UI, you’re basically writing code totally tailored to one device. It’s like a native app, it’s just a different language. And the experience will never be quite as good.
  • 66. “It doesn’t feel like a real app”
  • 67. Lesson: If the experience is part of your differentiator, you gotta make it native
  • 73. Maybe this will take off?
  • 74. We still live in an app culture The cold reality:
  • 76. People expect you to have an app
  • 77. 51 Source: http://url.ie/f1sk apps 83 apps Average iOS device owner downloads this many apps in a year in 2011 in 2010
  • 79. But hold on a second...
  • 81. Are you going to be a top 10 app?
  • 82. To download is not to keep, or use iOS and Android users
  • 83. The disposable app culture: Download it, use it once, forget about it, bin it
  • 84. Why isn’t there a parallel debate about whether to build for the Mac App store or the desktop browser?
  • 87. Why isn’t there a parallel debate about whether to build for the Mac App store or the desktop browser? Our app culture isn’t all that logical. (What culture is?)
  • 88. You need to be brave to tell your boss that our customers won’t be able to download our app from the app store.
  • 89. Will we see our app culture disappear? Brent Simmons - creator of NetNewsWire http://url.ie/f35r
  • 92. The app culture: Download it, use it once, forget about it, bin it
  • 93. So.... There are loads of reasons to go with the web • Cost/effort • Reach • Links • Complete control
  • 94. But.. There are good reasons to go native: • When you have to use the hardware • When UX needs to be a differentiator • When you won’t get found unless you’re in the app store • (Many of us) live in app culture, albeit a disposable one
  • 95. Be realistic, be brave, don’t go native unless you know you really need to
  • 96. iQ Content Ltd, Clarendon House, 34-37 Clarendon Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. +353 (0)1 677 1140 Thanks for listening!