When was the last time you downloaded an application onto your personal computer?

When was the last time you downloaded an application onto your personal computer? Probably not in a long while. If you’re like me you open a web browser and access anything you need via the Internet.

This is inevitable for mobile devices. Applications - or as Steve Jobs wisely renamed them ‘apps’ - on a phone are bound for the same demise. As a result, app stores and the need to download apps will soon be nostalgia.

But just as applications on the PC were popular for decades, native apps currently have a stronghold on mobile devices because they allow for more functionality and interactivity.

So here’s my native vs web prediction: As mobile web browsers improve and bandwidth increases - just as our desktop experience improved - web apps will win the war.

Long live HTML, long live the web!