Ok, time for some Web Platform real talk.
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First, ICYMI, the future is mobile: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/6/19/presentation-mobile-is-eating-the-world …
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Second, the correct way to understand the success (or failure) of your platform is by user-time spent in apps built on it.
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(and don't try to tell me that's the wrong metric; if you've got one that puts you in a better light, you're only deluding yourself)
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By the time-spent metric, the Web Platfom is pretty fucked today:http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2015/The-2015-US-Mobile-App-Report …
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...but there's some good news, and that news is that the web's distribution model is _killer_: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/25/wait-what-mobile-browser-traffic-is-2x-bigger-than-app-traffic-and-growing-faster/ …
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But that fact does not change the reality that the web is in crisis. Actual, real, serious crisis.
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I've avoided being direct about this in talks and presentations so as not to scare folks, but perhaps that's the wrong tack.
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It is appropriate to be freaked out about this.
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The implications of this are that precious objections to what/how someone builds on the web don't matter; it's *that* they build for the web
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This is, of course, a too-coarse-to-capture-any-let-alone-every situation first-pass analysis; but at a first pass, it'll do.
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Now, there is a time and a place for us to have conversations about what's best and what's only good.
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But in 2016, if you think you're playing for Team Web, and you haven't tried to internalize the "losing mobile" thing, you're fucking up.
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