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I'm having trouble seeing this as a valid argument when applied to cached JavaScript within a mobile browser. The same security practices apply.


They do, and it's for this reason that the really important stuff isn't in the web page at all - it's behind the company's API. The "business logic" that you can safely push out to a browser or hybrid app is somewhat limited, which means there is a hard upper limit on the real code sharing savings you can get with hybrid apps versus full native.




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