Re: Web app? No thanks.
The advantage to a native app is the app can load even without a network.
If the native app is delivering internet content there's no advantage whatsoever.
And as an awful lot of applications merely exist to harvest user data and stream it back to HQ there's little incentive to build something that does run sans network connection.
The only reason native is usually chosen over webapp is market research tells them it'll be better recieved, and other positive metrics.