Visually, and in terms of responsiveness, Wunderlist 2 on iOS is a definite improvement from the first version. That’s why we decided to go native, and I can definitely agree with all of points, I was following their transition from HTML5 to native stuff very carefully ” “If you want to continue to improve and improve and improve, as we did, you reach those limitations with cross-platform development and that’s really difficult. “It’s about the last five percent ,” he said. I asked if Reber agreed with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s complaints about trying to leverage HTML5 and webviews to build cross-platform for mobile, expressed at TC Disrupt this year before the company launched all new products, and he said he did, wholeheartedly. Reber said that while cross-platform tools like Titanium enable you to build a pretty good product on several platforms at once, none allowed them to go the extra mile and deliver something truly special. The challenge was getting that extra level of quality out of apps that weren’t native-built for each platform where Wunderlist appeared. “That was what frustrated us, and we wanted to really make it perfect.” “If you know Wunderlist version 1 on the App Store, then you see it’s actually kind of not that good of a product,” he admitted. In fact, Reber wasn’t even shy about calling the previous version of Wunderlist sub-par. Why start fresh? It’s a question of being able to deliver the best experience possible. That’s because where originally Wunderlist was built by 6Wunderkinder as a cross-platform app made via Titanium, the team made the hard decision to rebuild everything. The app adds a few new features to its free task management service, for sure, but the real story is behind the scenes, founder and CEO Christian Reber told me in an interview.

Wunderlist 2 makes its debut today, with new apps for iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows and web, all free and all completely rebuilt with a specific native version for each platform.

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