"Web is rapidly losing users" - Data? Anyone have some data on the web 'losing users?' Most mobile apps communicate with their cloud backends using HTTP, so cl

"Web is rapidly losing users" - Data? Anyone have some data on the web 'losing users?' Most mobile apps communicate with their cloud backends using HTTP, so clearly the protocol itself isn't dying. What may be slowing in adoption is browser-based access to HTML/JavaScript-based sites, but I question that assumption too. This idea that we need to burn it down to build a new technology stack for the web seems kind of laughable. Why would we do that when we could just replace the piece that is bothering us - JavaScript? All technology after sufficient degree of adoption and maturity is really just layered hacks. What do you think Windows is? Win32 buried under .NET buried under whatever runtime Microsoft decides to release next year - Metro tacked on because they only thought of building tablet interfaces recently. Even new features on the elegantly and robustly designed Mac OS X are starting to appear as afterthoughts. But this is all besides the point. What Mobile apps tend not to have is links to other mobile apps, whereas the web is a federated network of inter-linked content, which leads to pretty powerful network effects. All mobile apps will ever do is create siloed walled gardens - on the other hand, the web is open. So I don't see how mobile apps could be siphoning users away from the web. At the very least they are complements to each other.