Mobile Apps or Mobile Web? Both, Sometimes.

People are spending an increasing amount of time using apps on their phones, at the expense of the mobile web.

That’s worrisome, says Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon. But before you write off the mobile web, remember that it’s possible to use both mobile apps and the mobile Web at the same time.

As Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes: “On mobile, the difference between ‘apps’ and ‘the web’ is easily conflated. When I’m using Tweetbot, for example, much of my time in the app is spent reading web pages rendered in a web browser. Surely that’s true of mobile Facebook users, as well. What should that count as ‘app or ‘web?’”