Interesting stuff going on at Google, the the “Wave” et al…

Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O – O’Reilly Radar.

I understand the point of an emerging web application platform and web apps can do what many native apps did 10 years ago. I  don’t get the graph…is it another way of preaching the silly idea that the superiority of the native app reign (or OS) is about to end?…it looks here like the point in this graph is today’s web apps (RIAs or HTML5) are as good as today’s native apps…and I hear it over and over again.

Let’s not get carried away…please.  Google Earth compared to Google Maps, seriously, one is like flying, the other is simply useful, that’s all.

There is an excellent point in the article though, the observation that mobile browsing is driving a lot of the web platform now.  Yep.

Even so,  the native apps (and the mobile browser on an iPhone for example, is a native app) will always be superior. The native iPhone apps blow away the iPhon web apps  or any other mobile.   I just downloaded Google Earth on the iPhone, web apps can’t do that.  The real disruption to talk about began over a year ago, not in 1991.

Its not the web application platform that is displacing native apps, its that web connected mobile platforms are displacing personal computers.