The Internet continues to thrive with sites and offers galore – but could it slowly be dying at the hands of popular mobile apps. Enterpreneur turned venture capitalist Chris Dixon seems to think so.

Dixon recently put up a post called The Decline of the Mobile Web, quoting details from Flurry and comScore about information the growth of mobile, and how the Internet could be affected by it.

“This is a worrisome trend for the web,” says Dixon in his post. “Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing. This will hurt long-term innovation. Apps have a rich-get-richer dynamic that favors the status quo. The end state will probably be like cable TV – a few dominant channels/apps that sit on users’ home screens and everything else relegated to lower tiers or irrelevance.”

He continued, “(Apple and Google) reject entire classes of apps without…allowing for recourse (e.g. Apple has rejected all apps related to Bitcoin). The open architecture of the web led to an incredible era of experimentation. Many startups were controversial when they were first founded. What if AOL…had controlled the web, and developers had to ask permission to create Google, YouTube, eBay, Paypal, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Sadly, this is where we’re headed on mobile.”

Do you think Dixon has a point about the Internet being in trouble?

Source: Forbes