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By making the browser a true platform-a "first class citizen"-it will no longer be "that place you have your blog" and most app makers won't have to decide to g
by firefoxman1 14y ago
By making the browser a true platform-a "first class citizen"-it will no longer be "that place you have your blog" and most app makers won't have to decide to go "web" or "native" (and make a different app for a growing number of phone OSes) because they'll be one in the same. It means people will care more about the web to begin with.
If that happens, we'll see more mobile OSes being created, competing and innovating because you've solved the "chicken and the egg" problem with apps. Devs won't stay with the Big 2 simply because that's where the customers are, because the customers won't stick with a phone OS they hate simply because that's where the apps are.
What I find interesting is how much the trend in mobile resembles the PC/Web boom. Ten years ago everything you did on the PC besides browsing required its own software. Not so true anymore, huh? I hope mobile continues to follow the PC's trends and make this happen next.