I really disagree
With Web sites, there was the huge rush for the "business card" sites... the five - ten page site with a minimum amount of backend programming (say, a "Contact Us" form or maybe a simple store), and that work fed zillions of Web designers/developers from 1998 or so to 2005 (that market has substantially died, I may add). That opportunity just is not there for mobile apps. It makes sense that my local hardware store or restaurant or dentist is going to have a small site to tell me their location, specialty, and sales. It does not make sense to have a mobile app for the same. Furthermore, the splintered mobile market and the HTML 5 revolution is going to make it much more likely that folks are just going to overhaul existing Web sites to be mobile-friendly than to write apps. Why write 1 iOS app, 1 Android app, and 1 - 3 apps for the second tier mobile OS' when you can just write 1 Web site? Especially since the Web site is much more discoverable than the apps?
J.Ja
