It’s a point I’ve made before, but two stories brought this home for me again today. One was an article in MIT’s Technology Review talking about Google’s new Gmail program for iPhones and Android phones being accessed via the web rather than downloaded to the phone from a formal app store associated with a carrier or a device. As the article points out, Google took advantage of features on the WebKit open-source browser engine to build the app and make it behave as if it were running on the device, rather than over the web.
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