People seem to be responding to the title rather than the content of this article. Funny enough, but the linked post is actually not about that thought experime

People seem to be responding to the title rather than the content of this article. Funny enough, but the linked post is actually not about that thought experiment. It's Winer's response to someone else writing about the "What if?". Winer more or less defends Zucker via the Joe Hewitt argument that the web is stagnating, that the web is not a sufficiently rich platform for apps and that the only (best?) way to move forward is to innovate on one's own without (any? too much?) consideration for standards. I don't even understand this argument, to be frank. Winer says "We were making richer software than the stuff you can run in the web browser 20 years ago." But he gives no examples. I don't know what he has in mind, but really? Richer than 280slides? Richer than Gmail? Richer than Etherpad? Really? As for the stagnating web, I don't buy that either. Even if it isn't all rainbows and ponies, there's a lot going on with web-based software in the last few years - arguably far more than on the desktop. Edit: here's the original thought experiment post http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/05/15/if-mark-zuckerberg-invented-the-web http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/05/15/if-mark-zuckerber...