I wished the author had taken a more developmental view. Personally, I think the web as it currently is, has a few shortcomings, but on the whole I feel it can

I wished the author had taken a more developmental view. Personally, I think the web as it currently is, has a few shortcomings, but on the whole I feel it can be refined into something quite brilliant. Also, with regards to the title "it's time to kill the web app", I feel the web app has only just started to emerge as a solid competitor to native. To kill it now would be a travesty! I believe that soon it will replace a large chunk of native apps and the innovation we will see in browser APIs in the next few years will be quite remarkable. I think the USP for the web is ubiquity and uniformity - having a single, uniform platform that runs on any machine while being unlimited in the variety and nature of things it's capable of. There are issues to be addressed (security being the obvious one), but still, to me web apps are a step in the right direction, not the wrong one!!