The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

Jokerman

Well-Known Member
#1
Prince was close but he should have said web instead of internet.

Interesting article from Wired mag:

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine

Highlight:

You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. And you are not alone.

This is not a trivial distinction. Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule. And it’s the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because they’re rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives (the screen comes to them, they don’t have to go to the screen).
 

Casey

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Staff member
#4
Disagree. 90% of time is spent within on the browser, on the web.

Mobile applications are supplementing the existing experience, not replacing it.

Plus.....a great deal of mobile apps are simply web apps in a native package. They're still pulling HTML content. That article is so wrong in so many ways it's funny.

But it's Wired, what do they know. They tried to claim the Web was dead back in 1998 also, as I recall.
 

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