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The big thing that the Web provides that apps don't is the ability to move smoothly from one page to another. Apps live in their own silos most of the time, and
by GeneralMayhem 13y ago
The big thing that the Web provides that apps don't is the ability to move smoothly from one page to another. Apps live in their own silos most of the time, and provide an extra barrier to use in that you have to specifically download and install that one app in order to run it.
You would need something like a browser that masks the download process like it does for Web pages. Then you're left with Web pages that spawn independent, standalone programs. Flash, anyone?
Of course it's possible (and likely) that something completely different will be invented, but I don't think individual apps for everything that's currently a site is the answer.
- 7952 13y agoI am not sure why the division between apps and the web is even a useful one. What is the difference between a tab in my browser and an app on my taskbar? The app was likely downloaded from the web and sends/receives data from the web. The difference is how it caches data; which has always had a huge impact on user experience. The most important thing is to find better ways of synchronising data between a user machines and the web. It should be possible to download a complete document as a file, use a web cache to render it, and then submit edits to the cloud as a diff. The user shouldn't need to worry if this is happening locally or not.