by CHRISTOPHER MIMS, Technology Review
John Gruber points to Brent Simmons’ nuanced take on Dave Winer’s much-discussed assertion that native (mobile) apps are not the future and the web will take over. I’ve written often about the “war” between native apps and the web (or web apps, if you prefer) and the most interesting conclusion about what the future holds — whether it’s open, like the web, or closed, like Apple’s app store — has always been that the future holds both. Simmons goes further, however, and asserts that because the server-side architecture that all apps rely on, both native and web, is now so clean and discrete and independent of its presentation on a phone by a website or an app, the future is actually web apps and native apps that are basically indistinguishable.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27419/?p1=blogs
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