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Hmm, I'm not sure about the "but we'd need thousands of apps!" argument. I agree that a versatile set of markup, scripting and styling languages is always going

by nly 13y ago

Hmm, I'm not sure about the "but we'd need thousands of apps!" argument. I agree that a versatile set of markup, scripting and styling languages is always going to be a valuable free-form, but that doesn't mean 95% of what people use the Web for right now can't be rapidly reimplemented. As an example: there are 100s of millions of blogs out there right now... but most are just Wordpress with a theme. Develop a generic skin-able blog viewing app, win people over, and you've suddenly knocked hundreds of millions of blogs off the web and in to mobile sphere. And what about shopping? One credit card handling interface would be a lot more consistent and trustworthy than putting everything in to 100 different sites that could be prone to phishing and all kinds of nasty CSRF and XSS bugs. I think moving a lot of things to mobile could really improve the user experience, which is frankly awful in a lot of areas on the web.

adventured 13y ago
I'm not downloading an app for all the following (off the top of my head): game hints, movie times, stock quotes, business news, sports scores, sport highlights, sports stats, weather information, famous quotes, game reviews, gaming faqs, movie & actor information, tech news, hacker news, gadget reviews, programming Q&A, movie reviews, concert info, concert reviews, music, movies, books, book reviews, music reviews, music news, web hosting discussion, home fix-it crap, countless shopping circumstances, diet & health & exercise sites & discussion, drug information / supplement information & research, cooking recipes, cooking videos, photos, political news, political discussion, stray funny shit, local news, random blog posts on random blogs with random engines behind them (I'm not downloading six or eight apps to cover the blogosphere), and on and on and on and on and on I'm not downloading apps for even the, let's say, 50 sites I visit each week covering a couple dozen topics. With almost every one of those items, a different site does it best (eg rotten tomatoes on reviews and imdb on raw info). Now that's just a tiny list, and just from my personal list, and it's not comprehensive. There are hundreds of sites that contribute to that tiny list. A few of those items are covered comprehensively (eg Pandora in streaming music let's say or instagram), the rest aren't. And even in the case of instagram, there are dozens of sites that deal in images or photos that I want access to. Today I wanted to know who makes rail tanker cars, and who might benefit from their updating due to safety concerns, there's no app for that, the information was on the web among a dozen very different sites, and that's exactly where it'll remain. There are a thousand subjects I could spend the next few hours rattling off as examples, from auto repair to home repair to cooking to porn, that will not be even remotely covered by a single king app. The web will live long and prosper, and a very select few categories will get smashed by killer apps.
jiggy2011 13y ago
The problem is that nobody wants to be syndicated by one blogging app. They will want people to download their own app so everyone can see how creative they are and they can maximize their ad revenue.

by nly 13y ago

adventured 13y ago

I'm not downloading an app for all the following (off the top of my head): game hints, movie times, stock quotes, business news, sports scores, sport highlights, sports stats, weather information, famous quotes, game reviews, gaming faqs, movie & actor information, tech news, hacker news, gadget reviews, programming Q&A, movie reviews, concert info, concert reviews, music, movies, books, book reviews, music reviews, music news, web hosting discussion, home fix-it crap, countless shopping circumstances, diet & health & exercise sites & discussion, drug information / supplement information & research, cooking recipes, cooking videos, photos, political news, political discussion, stray funny shit, local news, random blog posts on random blogs with random engines behind them (I'm not downloading six or eight apps to cover the blogosphere), and on and on and on and on and on I'm not downloading apps for even the, let's say, 50 sites I visit each week covering a couple dozen topics. With almost every one of those items, a different site does it best (eg rotten tomatoes on reviews and imdb on raw info). Now that's just a tiny list, and just from my personal list, and it's not comprehensive. There are hundreds of sites that contribute to that tiny list. A few of those items are covered comprehensively (eg Pandora in streaming music let's say or instagram), the rest aren't. And even in the case of instagram, there are dozens of sites that deal in images or photos that I want access to. Today I wanted to know who makes rail tanker cars, and who might benefit from their updating due to safety concerns, there's no app for that, the information was on the web among a dozen very different sites, and that's exactly where it'll remain. There are a thousand subjects I could spend the next few hours rattling off as examples, from auto repair to home repair to cooking to porn, that will not be even remotely covered by a single king app. The web will live long and prosper, and a very select few categories will get smashed by killer apps.

jiggy2011 13y ago

The problem is that nobody wants to be syndicated by one blogging app. They will want people to download their own app so everyone can see how creative they are and they can maximize their ad revenue.