Uh-Oh: Why Apps Won’t Fade in 2012 Like I Stupidly Predicted

Less than a month after rashly predicting that apps would start to fade this year (for the second year in a row), I’m about to eat some humble pie. I still figure that improved Web technologies such as HTML5 eventually will make apps less appealing to users by making the mobile Web experience better. But I now realize that this year may be early to see a significant backlash against apps.