The value of the web is definitely in the content. People care about certain webpages or services because they bring them closer to something from the real world that they care about.
There has been a couple of in trials to make mobile applications in the last years, one of them is the apple apps store. Checking it out, I found so many useless applications that it almost feels like walking in a "100 yen shop"... lots of cheap bright things but nothing that I could not live without. Especially with those applications that expect to replace web services "while mobile", why would I want to give up so much of functionality just because I have a smaller screen? The goal should be to make applications that interact better in the device but that should not mean to restrict users from the services they are used to.
There are some apps that I consider good (as the wordpress app that I am using now) because it brings the funcitionality i need without the hazzle of entering a web adress but, considering that there is more quantity than quality, I wonder
If in the long run mobile applications will be the prefered interface to most Internet services.
