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Google is also separating a larger number of applications that were previously part of Android. Its latest independent applications are related to Google Drive and offer the functionality of text documents and spreadsheets editing that was previously part of Drive.

Many of the most popular mobile applications such as Instagram and WhatsApp had no web presence for a long time and some of them are continuing to exist only on mobile devices without finding it necessary to develop a desktop application. Vine, Snapchat and Secret are also representatives of the new wave of applications that are too vaguely interested in the familiar PC. They do not even find it necessary to create a browser-based version. These services skip the web browser that we know.

According to Smart Insights, mobile users are beginning to spend more and more time in applications and less in browsers:

The web evolves

All this does not mean that tablets are useless and are only suitable for users aged over 30 years. I just wanted to outline an interesting trend, namely that the line between smartphones and tablets is increasingly blurring. Tablets will gradually stop playing the role of an extension of PCs and will increasingly rely on the evolving Internet.

Currently the average size of a smartphone screen is between 4.5 and 5 inches, and as technology is advancing, we are seeing thinner frames around the ever-growing screens, which are gradually disappearing. Phones with a 5.5-inch screen are about to be launched at the end of the year and, as rumour has it, Apple is going to join this trend too. The declining sales of tablets and the increasing size of ​​smartphone screens are outlining a clear trend, namely that tablets are about to disappear over time. Some analysts now call them "a temporary evolutionary step" that has served its purpose.

It is expected that this year the use of smartphones will overtake the use of traditional computers. If we add to this the evolution of smart devices and the fact that the young people who used to work mainly with them are growing up, it turns out that websites as we know them will disappear very soon. They will constitute a basis of information and content that will be accessed and used through mobile applications and devices.

Internet pages and sites slowly but surely are turning into Internet applications and it is only a matter of time for this to materialize.