Crouch: Packaged HTML5 Apps: Are we emulating failure?

At his blog, Mozilla's Luke Crouch explores whether or not HTML applications deployed on "web runtime" environments offer a better experience than those running in a traditional browser. The answer is evidently no: "If you're making an HTML5 app, consider - do you want to make a native desktop application? Why or why not? Then consider if the same reasoning is true for the native mobile application."