The problem is more fundamental and it’s this; web apps are broken and have been from the beginning. They were created to solve the problems related to software

The problem is more fundamental and it’s this; web apps are broken and have been from the beginning. They were created to solve the problems related to software distribution and updates but these problems were solved in the early 2000s when broadband became prevalent and it was no longer painful to download large software packages. The early straw man was that downloading apps was too daunting a task for users and yet some how they managed to download and update email clients, word processors, iTunes and ironically browsers themselves. Since I began my career in 1995 I’ve seen application architecture pundits proclaim the correct way to develop applications go from thick client native to thin client native to thin client web to thick client web back to thick client native (iOS & Android) and now, according to the article back to thin client web. I’ll submit the best model is thick client native using the “web” as a communication backbone for networked features.