> As we move from an app-based environment to a web-based one This is very exciting. I was saddened when Firefox quit its web OS initiative. Similarly when the

> As we move from an app-based environment to a web-based one This is very exciting. I was saddened when Firefox quit its web OS initiative. Similarly when they removed the ability to create application shortcuts - chrome also seems to be de-emphasizing them. I'm a believer in the web becoming the future of apps, and by extension the operating system. Apps are in a sense today's Flash - closed, proprietary, custom, prettier, faster. As the web catches up - it's getting there - its free, open standards and develop-once-guaranteed-to-deploy-anywhere characteristics will win out. I'd say this reasoning was the main catalyst for Apple killing Flash, and why they only allow their own rendering engine on iOS (chrome on iOS, for example, uses the same internals as Safari).