>>pimter+(OP)
I am actually rooting for the web to die, so I say bring on all the competition-killing features Google can muster. It's only in the face of an extreme and impossible choice that people will finally wake up. Giving up the entire user-facing compute ecosystem to a hypertext markup viewer has held back technological advancement for nearly two decades. Computer chips are now 4 nanometers and solid state storage is reaching the speed of RAM. But we're still churning out platform content line-by-line,
by hand, like digital punch cards, because apparently it's technologically impossible to invent the equivalent of PowerPoint for web pages, or, god fucking forbid, not using HTML, CSS, and JS to create customer-facing applications.
Yes, the web is a great success story. But it's also backwards and ancient, and has been limping along by stuffing an entire operating system into a program made for viewing hypermedia. Are we going to wait 20 years to advance past these limitations? 40 years? 100 years? At what point will people finally fucking say "hey, maybe let's not kill ourselves jumping through hoops just to show pictures of cats and tax prep programs?"