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Those are all very specialised types of apps for content creation. If those are the only examples that came to your mind, you pretty much proved the point.

• bottled_poe 11y ago
  So, you really believe that nobody, other than the use cases above, use native software? I only listed the software categories which I personally use...
  • IIAOPSW 11y ago
    No. He proved that only a specialized minority need specialized applications. For a majority of users the computer starts and ends with the web browser. The same thing will happen on mobile
  • Drakim 11y ago
    I think he is exaggerating, but he does have a point. How many uses native applications for reading email today? More and more are also moving to the web for office applications. Some areas are completely swallowed. In the 90s it wouldn't have been strange to have a native application for the weather, or to browse a digital encyclopedia. Those areas are now only on the web.
    • anon1385 11y ago
      >How many uses native applications for reading email today? Most people with a phone?
      • Drakim 11y ago
        Valid point, but how many of those phone apps is just a webview wrapper? :p
  • thachmai 11y ago
    A counter example: How many people aside from specialists use the browser as their main "app"? How many people use webmail, search and read info, use facebook/twitter, order stuff, use online map, look at internet junk? The browser is the number one app on desktop without a doubt. The flexibility it offers is nothing short of incredible. You can cite specialist apps all you like, it doesn't change the fact that those apps are a niche right now on the desktop.