Web technologies and software distribution are separate. Heavily-curated app stores may arise on the web and gain market power. Likewise native apps could be lo

Web technologies and software distribution are separate. Heavily-curated app stores may arise on the web and gain market power. Likewise native apps could be loaded directly from URLs. I strongly disagree that "implementing the same app twice" is wasted effort. Write-once-run-everywhere is a recipe for shitty software. But a native app designed for the platform it runs on can be very high quality. This is why the iPhone succeeded: its software was just so much higher quality than the alternatives at the time. And this is also why the iPhone's original web-app plan (the "sweet solution") failed.