Hi HN,<p>I've been asked to see if building native apps for a data-centric site (information and sales) is advantageous over simply having a mobile website.<p>How has it been advantageous for you (or vice versa)?
There are lot of advantages of creating native mobile apps like GUI, performance, reliability compared to mobile website or cross platform solutions. You can check some detailed explanation at <a href="http://theappentrepreneur.com/app-entrepreneurs-dilemma-to-go-native-or-cross-platform/" rel="nofollow">http://theappentrepreneur.com/app-entrepreneurs-dilemma-to-g...</a>.