Native VS Web applications
If we make a simple comparison with what happened to the native desktop environment app (windows/mac) VS web app (office live/google
apps/etc.) we see that applications tends to go over the cloud. Even more, OS are going that way.
Chrome OS will be the consistent evolution of the new generations of apps that live in the clouds vs native apps that runs on the device itself.
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Although mobile native apps are very popular, it seems that html5+javascript API tends to fill
the technological gap between the 2 solutions. We saw more & more of web app that runs perfectly on mobile devices (Google apps, facebook,
etc.). And as soon as we’ll get a complete strong (4G) data coverage on cities, mobile web apps will become definitely more powerful.
When we see services such as onlive, and huge 3D games that runs on the cloud and could be played with just a TV, it’s easy to
understand that , yes everything will be on the clouds (remains me infosphere / noosphere from SF books).
Native mobile app is just the starting point of the mobile development. Finally the same that
happens to the desktop world, with just a few years behind…
And as soon as Web apps will be incorporated into an app-store (same as did google with
their app marketplace & RIA web apps for example) we will see a huge increase of web-apps.
So, yes, applications will become web-only.
Now the question is when?
