I believe when people refer to "Mobile Web" they're talking about accessing information through browser apps. That doesn't include embedded web views inside of native apps.
Much of what has made the web so successful is that it is an interconnected collection of documents. A CNet article can link to a tweet on Twitter and vice versa. This is impossible in native apps and embedded web views don't change that.
It's possible that native apps can interconnect but the barrier is pretty large. You have fragmentation of proprietary OSes and no open standards (AFAIK) to make this work.
That's what makes this all so sad to me. I'm not quite sure how we've ended up in this situation but the long term outlook is concerning.
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I believe when people refer to "Mobile Web" they're talking about accessing information through browser apps. That doesn't include embedded web views inside of native apps.
Much of what has made the web so successful is that it is an interconnected collection of documents. A CNet article can link to a tweet on Twitter and vice versa. This is impossible in native apps and embedded web views don't change that.
It's possible that native apps can interconnect but the barrier is pretty large. You have fragmentation of proprietary OSes and no open standards (AFAIK) to make this work.
That's what makes this all so sad to me. I'm not quite sure how we've ended up in this situation but the long term outlook is concerning.