How can it be that Linkedin's mobile site is faster than its native app?

1 points by kuhnster 12y ago ↗ HN

I find this baffling?

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Is it?

The native app uses REST to do data transactions, while the mobile site has caching mechanisms on its side. That can be one of the reasons I guess.