Good read from @netnamesdomains about how the App world is changing traditional web browsing habits

Is the ‘app’ killing the web as we know it?

netnames.com 10 Jul '12, 1pm

Good read from @netnamesdomains about how the App world is changing traditional web browsing habits

It seems hard to think of a world without smart phones yet it was only five years ago that Nokia was the hottest technology brand and we all raved about handsets that flipped open like a Star Trek accessory. Fast forward five years and the Finnish handset company is struggling to retain a foothold in the mobile market. Their underestimation of the use of mobile communications for everything apart from actually making telephone calls is akin to the delays by Microsoft in the early 1990’s in understanding that the Internet, and not hardware, would be the driving user trend. Whilst Android and Blackberry driven phones are important, it is the phenomenal growth of the Apple devices that is today threatening to alter the dynamics of how we interact with the digital world. Back in early March, Apple announced they had just passed through the 25 BILLION download mark from its App...

Full article: http://www.netnames.com/blog/2012/07/is-the-app-killing-t...

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RT @NetNamesDomains: Is the 'app' killing the web as we know it? NN blog post [link] #technology #SSLSecurity #onlinesecurity