Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/technology/01webwalls.html

by aaw • 16 years ago

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warwick• 16 years ago

“Reports of the death of the Web have been greatly exaggerated,” Mr. Beckstrom said. “It’s going to be alive and kicking for a long time.”

Of course reports are greatly exaggerated. For something like 'the web is dead', which is essentially punditry, reports will naturally trend towards being premature as the incentives for publishing are biased towards publishing early.

You don't get page views on opinion pieces if they aren't controversial. Things are rarely controversial unless they're exaggerated.

The more interesting question is not if the web browser will eventually diminish in importance, but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients.

YooLi• 16 years ago

"... but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients."

Or they can both coexists without one eclipsing the other. :)

Das_Bruce• 16 years ago

Wired reports that something is dead? Surprise!

jasonjei• 16 years ago

Wired wrote about the so-called death of Apple back in the 90s. History, it seems, sure did show Wired. In all respect, I have only seen iOS and Droid apps supplement or complement the actual Web apps. Facebook for iPhone hasn't really been a replacement for the Web app.

If anything, nobody likes dealing with the logistics of pushing client-side updates to users, especially with Web-based apps that to deal with multiple versions of REST/SOAP APIs (most hated is graceful degradation for older apps). My App Store icon already shows that 8 apps need updating. Goodness.

So I think the Web is safe. Because then you only need to update the browser, from the user perspective to take advantage of most functionality updates.

lostbit• 16 years ago

An again they mention that watching a YouTube video is not a web experience... This is like not accepting that Web evolved, as if Web could only be what we can see with Mosaic 1.0.

tjr• 16 years ago

Similarly they claim that Facebook is beyond the reach of web browsers. Cool.

FluidDjango• 16 years ago

"Proclaimed Dead, NYT reports that Wired article has skinny on what has expired" (web.com)

forensic• 16 years ago

I'm really starting to cultivate a hatred of anyone who makes their living by saying attention-grabby things.

Yak yak yak yak yak look at me look at me

mattmaroon• 16 years ago

Eh, nobody with a clue takes Chris Anderson seriously anyway.

Proclaimed Dead, Web Is Showing New Life

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