>Mobile app users have different performance expectations. No one bats an eye if a mobile app takes several minutes to download/update, but a website that does so would be considered an atrocity.
Well if it updates in my face I'd be pretty annoyed. The mobile app thing only works when they update in the background/transparently.
Well yeah if you had to wait for apps to update before you could use them you'd definitely be annoyed, but the beauty of mobile (and desktop) apps is that users don't expect to constantly be running the latest version of a given app, which means you can slowly update large apps in the background.
When you visit a website you expect to always be running the the latest version of that website. In fact, most users aren't even consciously aware of the fact that websites have versions at all.
Well if it updates in my face I'd be pretty annoyed. The mobile app thing only works when they update in the background/transparently.