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What is the difference between the NPR News iPhone application and the NPR Mobile website?

April 26, 2017application difference iPhone mobile News NPR website

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What is the difference between the NPR News iPhone application and the NPR Mobile website?

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In general, mobile applications are computer programs that you download to your phone and that run on its native operating system. In contrast, mobile web sites (including NPR Mobile) are just like regular websites, except that they have been optimized for use on mobile devices (small screens, no mouse, and limited keyboards in many cases). You use a browser – like Safari on the iPhone – to view and interact with mobile websites. Because it runs directly on the iPhone’s operating system, the NPR News application offers specific features – the playlist, caching of content for viewing when offline, GPS-based location – that would be difficult if not impossible on a mobile website.