Last summer, in a much-read cover story, Wired proclaimed that the Web is dead. Chris Anderson, the magazine’s editor, argued that loading pages in a browser is passé. The future, Anderson wrote, is in downloadable apps, which have several advantages over the Web. They’re fast, they can be customized for specific purposes, and—perhaps most importantly—people seem to have no problem paying for them, which means that software and media companies have an incentive to keep creating more. So, Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps?
