The FT switches to web apps — Benedict Evans

Interesting move from the FT - they’re moving from native apps to web apps. You can see the new web apps at http://app.ft.com. They have over 1m downloads of their mobile apps, so this is not a small decision.� The first observation is that this is an impressive technical achievement. The web app looks almost as good as the native app, and does all the ‘native’ navigation tricks that people flocke

[roomrag]

This will save the FT a lot of time and trouble. Rather than coding a native app for every platform (and then maintaining that knowledge base), they can run one or two core products and tweak separate versions of the same code base for different devices. They won’t be able to use quite the same co

[yyamano]

The web app looks almost as good as the native app, and does all the ‘native’ navigation tricks that people flocked to apps to be able to do.