Well, why do native apps for all the popular websites exist? Surely nobody would need or download the FB&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;etc. apps on mobile or desktop if the website itself was the optimum experience...<p>My point is that even with the web the developers are still going to make the native clients, so either the web has to become good enough for the need for native apps to disappear eventually, and the browser <i>becomes</i> the OS, or native apps become convenient enough to completely replace webapps.<p>Of course if the browser becomes the OS then the end result would be the same as the suggestion in my original post.