David Gilson explores the relative benefits of native applications and cloud applications, both from a consumer point of view, and from the point of view of the developers who ultimately supply our applications. Will the cloud replace the traditional app?

"It's easy to forget how much the functionality of our phones has changed in the last ten years. Back then, mobile applications were the preserve of PDA users, and the mobile internet was only just taking off, in the form of WAP. Fast forward ten years, and now everyone can expand the functionality of their mobile phones from an abundant source of applications, while the mobile internet has matured and WAP has long since died."

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