- Wired, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:57 PM
Ding dong, "The Web is dead," posit Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff in this month's
Wired Magazine. Taking its place are Web apps,
TV platforms like the Xbox, and computer services that exist outside the browser like Skype. Together, those Web alternatives represent "the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because
they're rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives... The fact that it's easier for companies to make money on these
platforms only cements the trend."
In the same issue, Wired's editor Anderson give Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle the chance to argue that the Web is very much alive. "Splashing 'The Death
of the Web' on the cover might be, well, overstating the case just a wee bit," Battle suggests. Meanwhile, Wired.com editor Evan Hansen believes: "The web is far too powerful to be replaced by an
alternative that gives away so much of what developers and readers have come to love and expect."
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