Weekly Poll: Could You Live Without Web Apps for a Week?

We cover web apps day in, day out. There’s so many great tools on the internet today, it’s hard to imagine living without them. And yet, plenty of people that think web apps are a passing fad, something that filled a gap for native apps that were missing from some platforms but not that essential.

And yet, most of us all rely on web apps even if we don’t think about it. If your site is powered by a CMS like WordPress, you’re relying on a web app. If you use any email service for regular communications, or sync files, or make calls online, you’re relying on web apps. Even if you’re not actively looking for new web apps for your workflow, and don’t rely on tools like IFTTT or online collaboration apps, you’re likely still reliant on web apps. So the question is, could you live without web apps?

For this time, let’s leave Facebook and Twitter out of the equation. Don’t think of social networks, or web apps you use just to pass the time. Instead, think about whether you could actually get your daily work done without any web apps. And yes: Evernote’s native apps, or Dropbox syncing your files, still counts as web apps.

There’s absolutely no way I could live without web apps — after all, AppStorm’s a virtual team and we all work on the web, and my own personal ventures are all on the web. I’d be in quite a mess if every web app I use disappeared tomorrow.

How about you?