About Me
- Andrew Richardson
- Software engineer, business owner, husband, runner, member of my pack of four-legged girls.
Blog Archive
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2012
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May(25)
- Nasdaq 'Embarrassed' About Facebook Delay
- Thurrott: Windows 8 Ditches the Aero Interface
- Mark Zuckerberg Ties the Knot
- IPO Syndicate: If You Can Get It, Run The Other Wa...
- Further Musings On Gruber's Split From 5by5
- John Gruber Takes Ball, Goes To Mule Radio
- ∴ Facebook Does a Faceplant, Recovers
- Ridley Scott and Hampton Fancher In 'Blade Runner'...
- Aaron Sorkin Talks About Writing the Upcoming Stev...
- Saverin: I'll Pay Taxes On Anything I Earned As a ...
- Making the Love Happen On Pandora
- Lenovo Refreshes Its ThinkPad T, W, L and X Lines
- The $144,146,165 Button
- Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Li...
- What Eduardo Saverin Owes America
- Keep Calm and Carry On
- Mike Shanahan Says Robert Griffin III Will Start F...
- Microsoft's DVD-less Windows 8 Explained
- Weekend Reads: Why are we still in 'Vietghanistan?...
- Woman Trashes Ex-boyfriend's House, Brags About It...
- Weekend Reads: The Incredulity Problem
- Windows 8 Drops DVD Playback
- Kindle Fire: the Fruitcake of Tablets
- Target Stores To Phase Out Kindle Products
- Rumor: How Apple Will Become a Mobile Carrier
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April(34)
- Old NYC
- Gigabit WiFi? 802.11ac router makes it possible, s...
- At Least It Has a View ...
- NFL Draft 2012: Redskins Take RG III
- Original Google Concept Phone Is Further Proof Tha...
- Google Isn't Kidding About This Self-Driving Cars ...
- TARP Disbursements
- Here's How Planetary Resources Plans to Mine Aster...
- Chuck Colson, Nixon Strategist, Dead At 80
- NFL Schedule Makers Try Their Best to Please Every...
- Destruction At 2500 Frames Per Second
- More Good Times For Lenny Dykstra
- Dick Clark, America's Oldest Teenager, Dead at 82
- Survey: AT&T Fastest For 4G Downloads, Verizon Bes...
- More On Twitter's IPA
- A Brief Pause
- Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement
- The 4-inch iPhone
- Cosby Says Guns, Not Race, the Key Issue In Trayvo...
- 'The Office' Falls To Ratings Low Against a 'Big B...
- Why Netflix Never Implemented the Algorithm That W...
- Stuxnet Loaded by Iran Double Agents
- Rumor: Larry Page Just Dropped A Huge Hint That A ...
- ∴ My New Design
- ∴ Ads, Browsers and the Web Economy
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May(25)
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2011
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December(54)
- ∴ Who Gets Your Vote
- F-35B Suitability Tests
- Verizon Reverses Decision To Charge $2 Fee
- Keynes, and Krugman, Were Right
- Would You Meet Here?
- Agloves
- Robert Reich: It's Obama-Clinton 2012
- Merry Christmas from Andrew, Kelly, Zele and Stell...
- Chinese Restaurant Sign Thanks Jews for Eating The...
- A Leg Up On Bad Customer Service With Insidr
- A Bit of Christmas Silliness
- Samsung: No ICS Upgrade for Galaxy S and Galaxy Ta...
- No Ice Cream Sandwich For Galaxy S And Galaxy Tab
- Shawn Blanc Reviews Galaxy Nexus S
- Mysterious Metal Ball From Space Falls in Namibia
- James Bond Producers Want Daniel Craig For Five Mo...
- NBC Will Stream Super Bowl Broadcast Live
- Well, It Sure Seems Like Keynes Was Right
- Why the iPad Is the Most Hated Gadget Ever
- Marissa Mayer Is Off Larry Page's Special Advisory...
- Young Couple Buried Under Tons of Coal in Florida
- Apples A5 Processors Made on Samsung Production Li...
- Could Netflix Bring Firefly Back From The Dead?
- Four HMMVs, Inbound
- American Airlines First To Allow Pilot iPads on th...
- TextMate 2.0 Public Alpha
- Why Apps Are Not the Future
- Verizon Rumored Serious About Netflix Bid
- Granderson: Gingrich Has it Wrong About the Poor
- Two Zero-day Vulnerabilities Found in Flash Player...
- Followup: Air Force Dumped Troops' Remains in Land...
- The 5 Best Toys of All Time
- Why the GOP Field Is So Weak
- Apple TV Updates Stream Purchased TV shows to Aust...
- Best of the Unimpressed Astronaut Meme
- S&P: Entire 27-nation EU is At Risk of Downgrade
- Air Force Dumped Troops' Remains in Landfill
- Motorola Update on Ice Cream Sandwich
- HP Is Reviving The $99 TouchPad Firesale!
- Colonel Potter Dead
- Baggage Handler Fired For Helping Sick Dog Can Hav...
- 25 Heroic Dogs
- DirecTV's TiVo Ready to Return
- Will Indy Die in 'Indiana Jones 5'?
- The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011
- The Fed's $7 Trillion Secret Loan Program
- Near-Bankrupt US Postal Service Plans Unprecedente...
- Send In the Clueless
- How to Sync Unread Tweets Between iPhone, iPad and...
- Zakaria: Why I now think Assad will fall
- Killing the Euro
- ∴ Stout Made in Oak Barrels Returns to NoVA
- Kindle Fire, Not the Netbook of the Tablet Market
- Microsoft’s New Resilient File System (ReFS) Will ...
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December 13, 2011
Why Apps Are Not the Future
“I’ll keep playing here while the rest of you flirt with apps. I’ll be here when you come back. I know it’s going to happen. Here’s why.
Linking.”
Dave's smart take: the simple feature that makes the web The Web is what you can't get from apps. It's about sharing and exploration. It's the feature that keeps people coming back for more.