News trends. Another Journalist Seduced By App Madness Predicts The End Of The Web. We've talked a few times about the media's obsession with "apps" as the solution to what ails them.
They get one glance at the control that an app appears to provide, and they go wobbly in the knees and fail to consider basic trends and basic economics. As a few folks have noted, locked down apps are like the CD-ROM craze among media types just as the web first became popular. Who won that battle? The latest reporter to fall under the sway of the app-run future is The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn -- a writer who's work I usually like quite a bit. He writes eloquently about the "closing of the digital frontier," and predicts that the days of the browser are dying, as the days of the app are rising.
He kicks it off, as nearly all attacks on the economics of digital goods does these days, by mocking the old "information wants to be free" phrase, which he falsely suggests led the world astray. Of course, it wasn't some blind support for a mantra that resulted in so much being free online. The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures. Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. This is not a trivial distinction. A decade ago, the ascent of the Web browser as the center of the computing world appeared inevitable. But there has always been an alternative path, one that saw the Web as a worthy tool but not the whole toolkit. “Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. Who’s to Blame: Them Chaos isn’t a business model. Bisonblog: Bison Trackback 2009: Joakim Jardenberg.
"2009 var året då det stod till slut stod *fullständigt* klart att framtiden rymmer mer medier än någonsin, men att det inte finns plats för någon industri" Jag frågar några bra människor om deras upplevelse av 2009.