Why do I need a browser?
It was this review for the opera 10 browser that made me think about it. Thanks to the proliferation of apis, desktop and mobile applications which have made my devices completely internet enabled devices, I now wonder what I would the browser for.
- I check my email. But I can check that using IMAP on my mobile phone or via Thunderbird on my desktop.
- Facebook. I get an email notification, that's when I need to check the facebook page. I have the facebook app on my mobile, which does quite a decent job, and even Gravity supports fb. I don't use seesmic, so on my laptop, I need to use the browser.
- News that which twitter hasn't delivered, I need a browser for. Of course I could use RSS feeds, but I find that most of the RSS feeds for newspapers pretty much crowd up my reader with several items which will remain unread forever. So I do need a browser, or I could just read the newspaper!
- Twitter. Gravity on my phone and Destroy twitter on my laptop.
- Reference. Most of my reference is when I don't exactly have access to a laptop or don't have time to get to it. Which means, my mobile search tool is what I use for reference. It still uses the default browser on my mobile though.
- Google reader. Gravity does a decent job, but I still would like to see images and links on my mobile phone. Now this is something I definitely need a browser for.
- Blogging. Thanks to posterous, all I now need to do is to send an email and I have a blog post.
