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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on the ground, how eff'd this is isn't well understood by the average dev (imo). I think there's value in more directness.
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: yeah, the absolute context-freeness of so many of the conversations I've had in the past week is *mind boggling*
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perhaps a follow-up blog post with a little more bluntness is needed? Acknowledgement of how serious the issue is needs more
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