Here is the sentence that immediately precedes the quoted text: “It’s not just that many of the applications we use are actually intimately tied to the web (eve

Here is the sentence that immediately precedes the quoted text: “It’s not just that many of the applications we use are actually intimately tied to the web (even Apple’s own products are able to make quick changes like the switch to iCloud services in iOS 4.3 thanks to markup being used in place of native code), it’s that the web provides something native applications cannot.” Topolsky seems to claim that collaborative editing with native apps is categorically not possible. That seems like a very odd claim given the history of collaborative editing. Maybe he wanted to say that currently no native collaborative rich text editors exist (which is true), but he certainly failed to express that.