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		<title>Why apps are not the future</title>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:12:29 GMT" ctSaves="16" flPreview="false" id="2011.12.13.1508" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1508" text="Why apps are not the future" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/13/whyAppsAreNotTheFuture.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:42 GMT">
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:06:31 GMT" pgfnum="11402" text="I hear it &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2011/12/08/the-web-is-on-life-support-forrester-research/&quot;&gt;everywhere&lt;/a&gt;. The web is dead, apps are the future."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:06:46 GMT" pgfnum="11403" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/12/13/webIsDead.gif&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;116&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named webIsDead.gif&quot; class=&quot;storyImage&quot;&gt;I heard it first on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html&quot;&gt;cover&lt;/a&gt; of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1&quot;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt; in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldoutline.scripting.com/blogroll/warning&quot;&gt;blogroll&lt;/a&gt;, as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:24:49 GMT" pgfnum="11411" text="That was said in jest, of course. :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:20:13 GMT" pgfnum="11410" text="I'll keep playing here while the rest of you flirt with apps. I'll be here when you come back. I know it's going to happen. Here's why."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:08:09 GMT" pgfnum="11405" text="Linking."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:08:11 GMT" pgfnum="11406" text="Visualize each of the apps they want you to use on your iPad or iPhone as a silo. A tall vertical building. It might feel very large on the inside, but nothing goes in or out that isn't well-controlled by the people who created the app. That sucks! "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:09:10 GMT" pgfnum="11407" text="The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don't need oceans because you have a bathtub. How nice your bathtub is. Try building a continent around it if you want to get my point."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:10:34 GMT" pgfnum="11408" text="We pay some people to be Big Thinkers for us, but mostly they just say things that please people with money. It pleases the money folk to think that the wild and crazy and unregulated world of the web is no longer threatening them. That users are happy to live in a highly regulated, Disneyfied app space, without all that messy freedom. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:11:52 GMT" pgfnum="11409" text="I'll stay with the web."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:24 GMT" pgfnum="11459" text="Update: I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/14/enoughWithTheAppsAlready.html&quot;&gt;follow-up&lt;/a&gt; to this piece."></outline>
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