StackMob backs HTML5 and native apps

Last month, Sencha revealed its HTML5-based take on Facebook. Fastbook was a response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg referring to the social network's bet on HTML5 as "one of the biggest mistakes, if not the biggest strategic mistake that we've made". Sencha VP of Marketing Paul Kopacki countered, telling .net: "We think we proved with Fastbook that there is nothing required that can't be built with HTML5."

Ty Amell, CEO and Co-Founder of StackMob, a "cloud-based mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build, deploy, and grow network-connected mobile apps", thinks the argument remains more nuanced. Speaking to .net, he said that "Sencha proved HTML apps can be great", notably for the "plenty of developers who are creating real business apps that need to be able to support multiple platforms from the same code base".

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