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Table 1 Main differences between iPhone Web and native applications.

From: New Trends on Ubiquitous Mobile Multimedia Applications

 

Web applications

Native applications

Technology

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Cocoa, Objective-C

Deployment

Web server

App Store

Frameworks

Safari, limited iPhone OS

iPhone OS

Limitations

Memory, JavaScript Runtime

Cache, DB

Installation

Just online access

Download or sync

Findability

URL/Web

iTunes/Web

Access

Through Safari framework

App Store download

Offline usage

No

Yes