Applications vs. WebApps

One of the nifty pieces of software that came with the bundle I mentioned my last post was MacJournal, a great blog writing application. Several weeks ago I created this blog site, edited my profile, selected a template, etc., and then as with so many people, nothing. Today, I fired up MacJournal for the first time and I am already on my third post. It dawned on me that the same thing happened with Twitter last week. I had set up a feed, but only looked at the site once or twice a day and never posted. Then I ran Tweetie, also from the bundle, and I was using twitter more regularly. What I realize is that while a web browser is great for looking up information, reading news, reading blogs; it is just not the way I want to interact with the web. The user interface of a dedicated application is so much better then what you get with a browser, even with java, flash, or silverlight. Think about when the iPhone came out and Jobs tried to say that WebApps were the way to go. Today dedicated apps are the only way to go on the iPhone.