Imagine a World Without Apps - The New York Times - 0 views
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Allow me to ask a wild question: What if we played games, shopped, watched Netflix and read news on our smartphones — without using apps?
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the downsides of our app system — principally the control that Apple and Google, the dominant app store owners in much of the world, exert over our digital lives — are onerous enough to contemplate another path.
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in recent months, Microsoft’s Xbox video gaming console, the popular game Fortnite and other game companies have moved ahead with technology that makes it possible to play video games on smartphone web browsers.
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