The native versus cross-platform debate gets treated as a religious question more often than it should. In practice, the right answer depends on a short list of practical factors specific to your product.
When native earns the extra cost
Apps that lean heavily on device-specific capabilities, need best-in-class performance, or are the core product rather than a companion to a web experience usually justify native development, despite the higher cost of maintaining two codebases.
When cross-platform is the sensible default
For most business apps, especially ones that mirror a web product or don’t push hardware limits, a cross-platform framework gets you to both app stores faster with one team and one codebase, with performance that’s more than good enough for the use case.
The honest framework is to start from your product’s actual requirements, not from a general preference, and let those requirements point to the approach.
