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I wouldn't call it "native" when you bundle half an OS worth of libraries with your app, including one that draws the UI with OpenGL instead of using system anything.


Nowadays folks like to call "hybrid app" as "native app". The bottomline is "native app" is what allowed to be listed on the "app store".


I think I've seen electron apps in macOS app store? And I've definitely seen all kinds of webview-based apps on google play.


I wouldn't call it "native" when you're running a sandboxed app on top of an immutable base system, but our goalposts tend to change pretty frequently in the arena of consumer electronics.




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