You'll have to forgive me not watching the talk yet. I'm not in a position to comment on Kay's entire vision. My comment was aimed squarely at the refrain tha

You'll have to forgive me not watching the talk yet. I'm not in a position to comment on Kay's entire vision. My comment was aimed squarely at the refrain that we've been hearing from serious engineers for a long time about the utter unsuitability of the web for apps. I find this tiresome because technology doesn't win by being better, it wins by being adopted. Of course there's no technical reason we can't have a better basis than the web for internet apps. It's not about technical limitations, it's about the adoption curve. The perfect cross-platform GUI toolkit in 1992 would have still failed if it required you to write C++ to render your class schedule. The fact that any person with almost no technical expertise can access an app from any computer they sit down at anywhere in the world without requiring installation is actually an amazing achievement that far outweighs the kludginess of the apparatus.