As a user, I despise webapps, unless it&#x27;s for social networking or news (like FB&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;HN&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;Imgur.) Even for social&#x2F;news I prefer native apps to webapps when available.<p>I mean look at the native mobile apps for FB and everything; I&#x27;m sure the majority of users prefer opening the apps to using the browser, so there <i>must</i> be <i>something</i> going for them.<p>Webapps NEVER feel as responsive or powerful or fit into the look-and-feel of a platform, compared to native apps.<p>To me, most of the alleged advantages of webapps just look like the excuses of lazy developers, not to mention also a bit of hypocrisy: Would YOU prefer most of your IDEs and development tools to be webapps, or native apps?