If you're framing the web crisis as "users spend a small % in browsers" then surely you need to chase after the largest apps which users spend the majority of their time in?
This brings us to adjacency: most apps spend most of their time and code handling events and drawing boxes & text. But that isn't what they *do*. They often do something *adjacent* to text and box drawing that defines what the app "is".
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Those adjacent things are often disjoint! Adding `getUserMedia()` didn't enable better RSS reading. And so what? It *did* enable whole classes of apps that otherwise wouldn't have been on the web *in general*. And the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts.
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That follows from the power of links: if you can't link to it, it isn't on the web. And if you can't bring certain classes of apps to the linkable set, then the whole is less powerful *even if most apps never exercise that power*.
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