<i>“Reports of the death of the Web have been greatly exaggerated,” Mr. Beckstrom said. “It’s going to be alive and kicking for a long time.”</i><p>Of course reports are greatly exaggerated. For something like 'the web is dead', which is essentially punditry, reports will naturally trend towards being premature as the incentives for publishing are biased towards publishing early.<p>You don't get page views on opinion pieces if they aren't controversial. Things are rarely controversial unless they're exaggerated.<p>The more interesting question is not if the web browser will eventually diminish in importance, but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients.
I'm really starting to cultivate a hatred of anyone who makes their living by saying attention-grabby things.<p>Yak yak yak yak yak look at me look at me
An again they mention that watching a YouTube video is not a web experience... This is like not accepting that Web evolved, as if Web could only be what we can see with Mosaic 1.0.