In reply to Matt B.

There are certain advantages to native apps: simpler offline support, faster code, and they often have better access to the native APIs that mobile devices offer. Mobile platforms are slowly expanding their APIs to work with web apps, too, but it's slow going.

The mobile team are looking at getting the best of both worlds, though: gutenberg-mobile compiles Gutenberg to work as a native component. So, we get something based off the same code base (ensuring the mobile apps can easily keep up with the latest Core features), while also offering the speed and experience that native apps can do. 🙂