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This afternoon at the Macworld 2011 Industry forum, founding editor of Daring Fireball -- John Gruber talked about the web vs. web apps. He likened the difference to that between the Newton and the iPhone, as the Newton was only able to hold information entered manually, while the web-enabled iPhone provides endless content. That's the main reason the iPhone hit big and the Newton didn't.
John made a distinction between HTML, a markup language, and HTTP, which is a protocol that all
