Will Websites become Obsolete in Future?

India has the third largest mobile users in the world. In future, usability of mobile will increase more and same for mobile apps. Major number of Internet based businesses in India, reach and does business through mobile apps. In the past, I wrote an article on Mobile apps named “Planet of the Apps”. Then a question strike in my mind, what if “Websites become obsolete in future’. In present time because of increase in number of mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, laptops, PC’s have become obsolete. After discussion with my friends, seniors, teachers, and internet research, finally I came to know about many views.

In my opinion, benefits of mobile apps are there reach-ability. One doesn’t need High Internet connectivity to operate an app. People outside metro cities can operate an app in low internet connection. They can place orders, view an online business app layout etc. But then I thought, an app can give information but one will always need website to get more information available on apps. Trend will shift to mobile optimized sites than PC but one can’t eliminate websites from mobile apps. This is possible in countries where mobile is becoming a dominating player. In some countries mobile utilization is still less as compare to PCs or Laptops. 

Now, I thought of usability of mobile and desktop computers. Desktop are used in many professions that still require power and flexibility that desktop offers, notably in movie making, video editing, and sound. It is all about using the right tool for the job. For a person who mostly browsers, posts socially and makes purchase online, then a portable device is needed and the choice between a desktop and a portable device is easy because it can meet all requirements and one can carry it around. However, if needs big screen desktop and work from one place then PCs are first choice. In future, we may see mobile becoming the portable devices replacing laptops.

So, I think future of devices will tend to towards a single device that can take many roles. Because presently there are many problems with Mobile phones in terms of Display power, screen technology, processing power and battery life. Future of websites will be driven by the hardware and the usage. We wouldn’t have mobile apps today if we didn’t have powerful mobile devices. Therefore, many thoughts emerged on this question of mine and finally I can say Future of Websites is not obsolete. We may see mobile driven websites and large portable mobile devices, which may take it years to hit the market.