>That's what Henry Ford critics said. ;-) 5 years later they were manufacturing automobile tires or broke. It'll be even quicker this time. The key issue for me is that Amazon, Priceline etc made their fortunes on the web- but on mobile, they push towards native apps. There's a good reason for that and the rest of the market will figure it out, hopefully before MS does and abruptly changes direction.

I am currently unsure if this is coming more from the form factor and UI side of keyboardless devices or sometimes because of slow and/or costly internet via mobile connection. If you have a current high end pad or phone and are connected via WLAN, the expirience is getting all right. But also the trend to always add more data to be cached locally speaks for apps IMO as does the recurring case of lost connection.