A Sign Of Things to Come for Mobile Apps (and Apple’s Appstore in Particular)?

Amazon’s recent launch of Kindle Cloud is pointing to an interesting possibility with regards to mobile applications.

There are two core components to which I want to draw attention.

First is that the application is based in the browser. Quite obviously, this means that regardless of what browser the user is employing ,the user experience and functionality of the application stay the same. Leveraging industry-standard technologies like javascript and CSS ensures that the application remains cro...