Paul Ford says the cost of browser app capability keeps falling
What happened
On 5 November 2026, Paul Ford published the article "The Web Is More Than Enough", arguing that the web browser is an extremely powerful application software platform and that the cost of acquiring this capability is falling almost every day. On 6 November, Simon Willison reported and quoted this view. So far the story consists only of the view being put forward and relayed, with no further developments.
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- Simon WillisonQuoting Paul Ford
Paul Ford argues that the web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day. The remark comes from his article The Web Is More Than Enough, published on 5 November 2026.
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