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Thread ID: 136068 2014-01-16 05:26:00 The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise zqwerty (97) PC World Chat
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1365282 2014-01-16 05:26:00 www.wired.com zqwerty (97)
1365283 2014-01-16 05:35:00 The guy's an idiot - probably with an ulterior motive for making that claim... johcar (6283)
1365284 2014-01-16 05:44:00 So it was PayPal that helped with that Linkedin abomination I keep getting spam from?

Explains everything.
Agent_24 (57)
1365285 2014-01-16 06:08:00 Better face it, the web is being monetarized, that is what Win8 is all about. zqwerty (97)
1365286 2014-01-16 18:46:00 "The gist of the argument is this: as app-happy mobile devices become the primary way we compute, the good old browser becomes irrelevant. The hyperlinked, free-flowing, egalitarian, and ubiquitous world wide web will fade away. Instead, digital existence will mostly transpire within the more self-contained domains of individual apps, which offer their creators the flexibility and power of building right into the mobile operating systems. We will still have the internet, but it won’t be the same wherever you use it. " pctek (84)
1365287 2014-01-16 23:10:00 I'll believe it when I see it. Agent_24 (57)
1365288 2014-01-17 02:15:00 Like most of us on here we probably don't agree with the article.

But you can't call the guy an idiot, he had achieved much more than even I have...

He is probably just stirring to create some interest on his blog.

And this post by Speedy proves that mbo manufacturers have not given up yet.

www.techspot.com
Digby (677)
1365289 2014-01-17 03:49:00 Here's a few other things which may be dying !

www.marketwatch.com
Digby (677)
1365290 2014-01-17 04:49:00 " The gist of the argument is this: as app-happy mobile devices become the primary way we compute, the good old browser becomes irrelevant. The hyperlinked, free-flowing, egalitarian, and ubiquitous world wide web will fade away. Instead, digital existence will mostly transpire within the more self-contained domains of individual apps, which offer their creators the flexibility and power of building right into the mobile operating systems. We will still have the internet, but it won’t be the same wherever you use it. "

The desktop browser won't be made irrelevant, it will just share the browsing space with various sized hand held and tablet devices depending on where they are when they are browsing online. This also means that web designers need to cater for 3-4 different screen sizes when building websites - aka Responsive design.
Webdevguy (17166)
1365291 2014-01-17 06:40:00 Interesting, but I am not holding my breath. Cicero (40)
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