1/ To reach a large audience with a web site, you need it to be Google-searchable and have Facebook presence. You depend on tech giants.
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2/ Similarly, to reach a large audience with a mobile app, you need Google and Apple app store presence. You depend on tech giants.
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3/ Either way, GOOG-FB play a massive influence, and are strangling the open web (e.g. FB pages, Google docs, AMP, etc).
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4/ Meanwhile, the comfort zone of superb UX of mobile apps like FB and Youtube create nearly unbeatable expectations, web can hardly meet.
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5/ Comfort zone creates addiction and mobile usage is growing compared to desktop. AMP itself is an attempt to get comfort zone UX for pages
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6/ Overall the web isn't dead just yet, but it's on the path to death. I'm not the only one claiming the (open) web is dying.
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7/ I have a blog post in the works about this topic and more. Stay tuned. EOF
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Replying to @andrestaltz
Hang with me for .5s on an observation -- From the perspective of competing with native applications, AMP is doing something right
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I can't disagree with that. "The web is dead" is a simplification, I would say instead "the web is threatened".
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It's at least choking to death on JS, that much is for sure.
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I spend a lot of my day tracing the sites "DX"-obsessed developers are making & you can scarcely believe the cognitive dissonance here.
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Person pitching desktop-centric FW that tries to re-build browser (badly) in JS and which chokes on mobile: the web is dead!
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It's tragi-comical to hear how much time goes into lovingly crafting webpack configs and massaging NPM deps for bad results on average.
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