AMD joins MeeGo

With a webserver and browser, who needs apps? I don't believe that WLAN parties are going to suddenly make the world turn away from its web centric shift. There would have to be a big gain over simple portable browser based apps. Apps on phones and tablets are just like apps on PCs in the early days, we cared because that was how the market began. It seemed so important until the web came along. With phones, we still don't really have the web yet (too small), so apps are filling a small gap in time until the displays catch up to the web. Apps are the browser plugins of yesterday, cool, but far from essential.

Sure there will always be niche opportunities, but the vast majority of the people aren't interested in apps which they can only access from one device or their PCs/macs, just as they aren't interested in DRMed content. Apps are where the money is at for the producers (right now), so naturally there is plenty of hype there, but hype is the key word. Just like ebooks, you hear about them because money talks (and brags). And let's face it, reviewers and pundits wouldn't have much to write about it if they admitted that apps were largely irrelevant. Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to read/access the free content on the rest of the web. My mom will use a browser and email and youtube, she wouldn't care one bit about an app store.

App stores matter... to those running app stores.