>how many more stupid native apps must I install to get basic textual and photo information? You're conflating the web with web apps. Those are two separate th

>how many more stupid native apps must I install to get basic textual and photo information? You're conflating the web with web apps. Those are two separate things. If web apps are to be the future, bloating up the browser to the size of an OS to get native-app level functionality sounds like a dystopian future to me. I don't want my browser to access my GPU, I don't want by browser leaking my LAN IP, I don't want my browser communicating with USB devices on my machine, etc, etc... Also, nobody (yet) has been able to create a GUI/Client App standard for cross-platform delivery that performs well across different hardware architectures and operating systems which are designed and optimized for completely different things. That makes sense because the "one size fits all" way of doing things is terrible for performance among other things. >The only right answer is universal apps(the web). The only "right" answer is that we should tolerate specific web apps only when the benefits outweigh the costs.