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This news article seems to come up every few years. Nevertheless, the niche of apps, which can profit of this, is quite small.

Either you have a highly interaction-heavy web-app, where it makes sense to execute most of the code on the client and deliver the content as JSON or you have a content-heavy website, where it makes sense to deliver cached content to the client.

There are some apps in between, which are highly interactive and content heavy like web versions of social apps. For them additionally the question arises, if they want to be crawled by Google or Google wants to index their content.

To profit from this, you need an app, which content the users search for and interact with several times after they have found it. So i guess, "revolutionize" seems a bit much to me.