Description: @gurupanguji's space on the web - ramblings of an irreverent and irrelevant person.
Say, somehow, the web is dealt some massive blow, and native apps have all the momentum. What does it look like for the web to lose? As in, for native apps to somehow become the default choice for organizations building digital products.
This is a good list of items to keep an eye on and it is true that without the web, the native community will lose out on a lot. Now this doesn’t mean everything can and should be a web app. It also does not mean that native apps are web apps because they use URIs to “fetch data” / run a service.
The web has 2 roles to play imho: 1) fastest way to prototype a service and test it with the public and 2) fastest way to scale a service. Where it falters (at least on iOS and quickly on Android) is have a set of platform approved APIs that allows one to build a polished experience.