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I am not evangelising apps. You soon will be very able to use both your fonts as the ipad expands to more locales (but you can already do so in an app...) and browsers almost completely for video in the ipad as most of the major players abandon flash and switch to html5. In the meantime youtube and loads of others can do that already almost perfectly. As for apps lots of people love and actually PREFER them to constant browsing, they are a good paradigm that combines web interfacing apps and apps as we came to know them on the mac (later copied on the wintels). I don't think apps are the holy grail of course, but they are a good shift in terms of interface for tablets for sure.
What is more I like the way the cut the horrific middleman and cash cow that is google by diverting google ad dollars off them. No more will google say pimp imdb and others with their ads (which make dollars in the ranges of tens of hundreds of billions by snooping on users and pimping ads to everyone using the internet - google unlike what they would like you to think is the biggest ad agency on the globe and that's the ONLY way they make money). Instead the owner of the app will manage their ads or get paid via subscription.
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