Abstractly, I'm referring to the fact that we used to build web apps that output HTML web pages, which were streamed over HTTP. The "application" was entirely o

Abstractly, I'm referring to the fact that we used to build web apps that output HTML web pages, which were streamed over HTTP. The "application" was entirely on the server. The browser was, in effect, a dumb terminal. Then 1999 happened and we got true Web apps (smarts in the browser fetching data from the server) as well as the mixed-bag of XML-RPC and HTTP as a post-Web-page transport[0]. Not that I don't think that Apple is seeing the Internet as that thing that connect Apple products, just that this is not a rare or recent concept. [0] Or earlier, depending on your view of Java applets.