"Brad Roberts" <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2324.1313368907.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > Quite frankly, it's too late to pretend that the web and the browser is
Judging by the rest of your post I assume you meant "isn't" not "is"... > all there is for a large segment of the computer and 'net using > population. They never leave the browser. That's only going to grow. > Pretending otherwise, is, well, fairly pointless. The people on this > are in a very small minority and do NOT represent the typical user. > Haven't for a long time. > That's a completely absurd cart-before-the-horse question-begging argument. The *reason* a growing number of people never leave the browser is obviously *because* so many idiot trend-whore developers and managers keep pretending the web is all there is. Users are morons (almost by definition), and that means they defer judgement to others and thus follow the *trends*. On the desktop, web is the trend, therefore 1. Moron users assume that means it's better, and 2. That's where all the functionality gets put, and thus, where the users go. Start making *real* applications again and the sheeple will follow. Need evidence of that? iOS and Android. Are shitphone users flocking to webapps or to the app-store apps? The latter, obviously. (At least that's *one* thing they've managed to get sort-of right...) And you can't argue it's a usability matter, because the web sure as shit doesn't win on that: Web app usability is crap, and Average Retard Joe is no worse at real apps than with the web. My mom's one of the dumbest completer-illiterate fucks I've ever met (no exaggeration) and yet even her ability with Word - a *REAL* application - is absolutely *NO* worse than her ability with a web browser. In fact, she's even a little *better* with the real apps like Word: You should see the crap I have to put up with when she *attempts* to use any of those god-awful webmail servces. Same goes for my dad. Your argument here is completely rediculous.