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Wait! The Web Isn't Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It

In 2010, the web died. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Google At about the same time, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury took charge of the Google team that oversees Chrome, the company's web browser. "Now people don't have to install an app," says Amar Nagaram, the vice president of mobile engineering at e-commerce site Flipkart, an Indian company that has found enormous success in building a version of its retail service for the web. Yes, more people use the company's various apps, but increasingly, the mobile web is a vital way of reaching its worldwide audience---not to mention maintaining and expanding that audience. As Chrome product manager Alex Komoroske explains, this kind of web app can approach the speed of a native app---the all-important 60 frames per second---and thanks to service workers, it doesn't break down when networks get flaky.

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