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While the move is in some sense just a good P.R. stunt, Baptiste’s challenge illustrates a deep conflict on the net — apps versus HTML5. Apps close much of their data off from the rest of the web, but can better use the power of chips in mobile devices to create new user experiences. HTML5, the newest version of the web’s lingua franca has only a subset of an app’s interactivity, but remains open to the web, so that pages can be linked, shared, cut-and-pasted, bookmarked and searched for.

Last September, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson declared “The Web Is Dead,” foreseeing the app-ification of the digital world; while Wired.com editor-in-chief rebutted with his prediction “How the Web Wins“.