Hybrid mobile apps are not as good as native apps. I'm sure you've heard this before. You might even be among those believing this an accepted fact. But is it fact? Or is it mostly a myth bolstered by the seriously lacking experiences of early, poorly made hybrid apps? To find out for sure, we created the "HTML5 Mobile Challenge," designed with a very specific goal: find out if a well built hybrid app can, in fact, pass as a native app.