[Lagged2Death]

The #1 most-used app on the iPad is... Safari. [http://rjionline.org/news/rji-dpa-spring-2011-ipad-survey-re...] And given the nature of the survey ("Open question without prompts") I expect the reported figure (21%) is much too low, because users don't even know what a browser is, half the time. It wouldn't exactly be a shock if half of the respondents who mentioned the New York Times app were really reading the Times through Safari.

The bulk of the non-browser apps mentioned are ways to read things (NYT, WSJ, USA Today, AP News, WashPo, Kindle app).

That is, the bulk of the non-browser apps mentioned are more-or-less tarted-up browsers. So, for that matter, are the likes of Siri and Google Search.

I don't think it's the browser that's in danger here.