I've been using the web since 1994. It's always been an application platform and anyone who says otherwise is misremembering. > I’m supposing that the problem

I've been using the web since 1994. It's always been an application platform and anyone who says otherwise is misremembering. > I’m supposing that the problem is that the web browser is the universal platform for all applications This is a feature not a problem. > There’s a benefit for information consumption (web pages) being separate from functionality rich and infinitely fingerprintable “native capabilities” What exactly is that benefit supposed to be? If you want a read-only publishing platform, put PDFs on a FTP site.