Well you can't argue with that. But what says you can't build a successful business around the web? Why can't you build a successful business with a desktop application?
You can (build a successful business with a desktop application).
I think the degree or pace of success will be different for a mobile, desktop or web app. I also think that an app that's on all three will be more likely to succeed than one that's only on one or two of these.
A couple or so years ago Microsoft had this vision of being on every screen or something. I'd never heard anything that made more sense as a vision statement from a tech giant. Then cloud came along, and they dropped that vision for the Azure/Office 365 push. That was a mistake.
[Edit] To be clear, Azure/Office 365 weren't mistakes - they were/are good. Dropping that vision statement was the mistake.
Yeah, but I find the original post as a little backwards. Not everything makes sense on mobile. Not everything makes sense on the web. So why try to shoehorn it in there?
As with the web, it's not the shoehorned apps that are leading the charge on mobile. It's the totally new kinds of apps that didn't make sense until this platform came along.
You're absolutely right. Kindof like of your hammer is Java, then everything looks like a thumb. In that sense I guess his post is talking to what's hot right now.
