When I bought an iPhone this summer, I didn’t think it would create a division between me and my laptop.
But it has. And I blame it on the glossy rounded squares commonly known as apps.
Perhaps my Macbook Pro laptop is three years too old, or it fails to continually stream Netflix movies, but it no longer serves for entertainment purposes.
In fact, my modern laptop has become the basic typewriter. It does the only thing the iPhone is not yet able to do, and that is to serve as an extensive writing platform. The only reason why I use my laptop now is to write articles, blogs, columns, or design graphics and layouts.
I used to spend hours browsing through Facebook, Twitter, and yes, MySpace, to name a few. But I don’t waste as much time on the Web scrolling to see what interests me anymore. Because their sibling apps, free or not, are easier to maneuver and give me direct information, I have moved on to flipping up and down the iPhone’s screen.
Applications are dividing our interests much more successfully than the Web. There’s no need to browse for a particular piece of information anymore; no more scrolling and having something else catch our eye. It’s there when we want and need it.
This trending technology is here to stay, even to the point of possibly replacing the Web. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, recently wrote an article stating that applications are not involved with the Web, but rather with the Net.
In case you didn’t know, the Internet and the Web are different things. Configured in the 70s, the Internet is a very large connection between networks. On the other hand, the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the early 90s, giving us the power to link pages together through a browser.
Because applications live under a particular network, the Web is slowly blurring into the background. We no longer go online to look for a page and enter our zip code to check the weather. Instead, we touch a button and the weather is instantly there.
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