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There's a place for command-line and there's a place for shortcut. It all depends on the number of options in an interface.

If you only need to do a few things in an interface, shortcut is better because it's clean and intuitive. But when you have lots of behaviors (i.e. millions of potential websites to go to), shortcut just doesn't make sense. That's where an auto-completable search command-line becomes useful.

Plus, I rarely see people use the address bar the way it was "meant to be" or the way that the author described it. People either google the website that they want to go to or the address bar auto-complete it before one finished typing.

Even facebook has a global auto-complete search box.

Watch it, when the number of frequently-used apps in an iphone reaches a critical amount, it will make more sense to use app search/run interface.