It’s time to kill the web app
I was about to say, it&#x27;s time to kill monolithic native apps that live behind DRM&#x27;ed App Stores, can&#x27;t talk to one another effectively, can&#x27;t be composed, must be explicitly managed by users lest they run out of storage, and have an enormous transactional cost to trying them out.<p>Or I could point out that explicitly designed application protocols with native clients over the years have also shown themselves vulnerable to attack (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc), or that most of the attacks on the Web have not been XSS&#x2F;XSRF but server-side hacks. Or that Android&#x27;s native app platform is full of malware and viruses that even Google hasn&#x27;t been able to completely eliminate with deep scanning.<p>Is the price of security that we throw away the Web and HTTP and implement everything as silo&#x27;ed IOS style monolithic apps? It&#x27;s a price too high to pay in my opinion.