Re:Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life
by warwick on Sunday October 31, 2010 @08:03PM
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“Reports of the death of the Web have been greatly exaggerated,” Mr. Beckstrom said. “It’s going to be alive and kicking for a long time.”
Of course reports are greatly exaggerated. For something like 'the web is dead', which is essentially punditry, reports will naturally trend towards being premature as the incentives for publishing are biased towards publishing early.
You don't get page views on opinion pieces if they aren't controversial. Things are rarely controversial unless they're exaggerated.
The more interesting question is not if the web browser will eventually diminish in importance, but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients.
Re:Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life
by lostbit on Sunday October 31, 2010 @08:48PM
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An again they mention that watching a YouTube video is not a web experience... This is like not accepting that Web evolved, as if Web could only be what we can see with Mosaic 1.0.
Re:Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life
by jasonjei on Sunday October 31, 2010 @09:32PM
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Wired wrote about the so-called death of Apple back in the 90s. History, it seems, sure did show Wired. In all respect, I have only seen iOS and Droid apps supplement or complement the actual Web apps. Facebook for iPhone hasn't really been a replacement for the Web app.
If anything, nobody likes dealing with the logistics of pushing client-side updates to users, especially with Web-based apps that to deal with multiple versions of REST/SOAP APIs (most hated is graceful degradation for older apps). My App Store icon already shows that 8 apps need updating. Goodness.
So I think the Web is safe. Because then you only need to update the browser, from the user perspective to take advantage of most functionality updates.
Of course reports are greatly exaggerated. For something like 'the web is dead', which is essentially punditry, reports will naturally trend towards being premature as the incentives for publishing are biased towards publishing early.
You don't get page views on opinion pieces if they aren't controversial. Things are rarely controversial unless they're exaggerated.
The more interesting question is not if the web browser will eventually diminish in importance, but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients.
Or they can both coexists without one eclipsing the other. :)
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If anything, nobody likes dealing with the logistics of pushing client-side updates to users, especially with Web-based apps that to deal with multiple versions of REST/SOAP APIs (most hated is graceful degradation for older apps). My App Store icon already shows that 8 apps need updating. Goodness.
So I think the Web is safe. Because then you only need to update the browser, from the user perspective to take advantage of most functionality updates.