The future of the web and the curious case of the unintended silo

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Argues that the web is closing capability gaps but losing to platform silos, shows concrete demos and metrics: a 20‑second flight booking via Payment Request, service worker caching patterns for instant reloads, Twitter’s 65% pages‑per‑session lift and 41% higher sign‑in with 85% fewer failures, and demos of Web Bluetooth, NFC, WebUSB and WebAssembly. Explains IPC primitives (postMessage, MessageChannel) and a usable RPC layer via Comlink proxy API, and pushes share target and PWA install flows as practical fixes.

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1. 0:00Future of the web
2. 1:49Unintended silos problem
3. 8:51Progressive Web Apps integration
4. 17:36Chasing native parity
5. 27:24Web’s reach matters
6. 36:49Breaking silos with links
7. 47:23Cross-origin APIs
8. 51:14Closing thoughts & Q&A

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