[toomuchblah]

Zynga could be considered evidence. There is nothing so special about other classes of applications that make them immune.

[jiggy2011]

Not sure what Zynga is evidence of?

[toomuchblah]

Being made obsolete by mobile.

[jiggy2011]

Well games on the web has never really taken off as a thing, Zynga I would guess were the people to do it most successfully.

There is huge value in having a standard, indexed repository of information like the www. If I want to find some specific information I don't want to have to find and download a specific app every time.