NYC, SF & BOSTON, 2015 — When outlining the initial vision for Safari Flow in 2013, the goal was to build a platform-agnostic, fully browser-based web app. By the time Safari Flow became the new Safari, we knew what other product teams had discovered around the same time: trying to make a web app feel like a first-class citizen on mobile platforms could be… challenging. From our initial experiments with browser caching to enable offline reading, to the lack of access to hardware capabilities or stock OS features, it became apparent at the time that we had to invest in native apps for both iOS and Android.