From a recent article in Wired Magazine:
"Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule. And it’s the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because they’re rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives (the screen comes to them, they don’t have to go to the screen)."
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I must say that as I sit here, browsing the internet on my laptop (using a browser, not an iPhone), I don't really agree. Sure, the internet has become more specialized and streamlined, but we are still 'exploring' it every day.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Jennifer! And I sure use my browser a lot too. But I think browsers are maybe headed for a major overhaul in which a lot of these different types of apps converge in some way. Didn't you find the graphic interesting? I thought that was very telling.
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