Is The Web Dying?

https://medium.com/tech-blogging/b2977dbee814

by tr4656 • 13 years ago

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greenyoda• 13 years ago

Will people ever tire of writing articles about whether the web is dying? This Google search for "is the web dying" gives 34800 hits:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22is%20the%20we...

hardwaresofton• 13 years ago

Why is this a bad thing?

So casual users of the internet/computers are going to start switching to other mediums to be casual on? That's fine.

So many people only use computers to check email/write small word documents/do other small-scale things. Those of us that use it for more, will stay on the internet, until something better that allows as much connectivity comes along (which it probably won't, but who knows) -- That means the internet will just be full of a different crowd, which is fine with me.

eksith• 13 years ago

This is glossing over one important point though: Most people don't frequently replace their PCs with new ones.

I still use a rig built 4 years ago. My mom uses one that's about the same, but before that, she owned a Dell tower that was 7 years old. Most of my friends own PCs that are 2-5 years old, but none of them would ever say that they use the web less. Besides Facebook (which is being shunned lately by folks I know) and Twitter, the web is quite vast and email, games, docs and music aren't the only things to be created or consumed.

Now I've had to replace my phone quite a lot more and I got a new tablet recently. These things will add considerable weight just by the rapid obsolescence and frequency of upgrades. The same applies to laptops (though I've used my old Inspiron 8200 with XP recently).

PCs enjoy a different domain in that regard.

vxNsr• 13 years ago

I totally believe that no one uses the web on mobile devices, the experience sucks royally, even using apps is sub-par to the desktop experience, but for some things it's "good enough" that most people don't care.

Is The Web Dying?

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