Listened to Windows Weekly 166: Revenge Of The White Icons

• Netcast
• Windows Phone 7 integrates your various accounts to services, e.g. your Flickr photos, Facebook photos, etc. all live together.  Contrast this with the need for a separate Flickr app, separate Facebook app, etc.  that you start up and exit, start up and exit.
• This drive in the marketplace to have apps for everything is a throwback to when we had desktop apps for everything rather than using online services.  That is, the pre-Internet age.  E.g. CIBC now offers a Blackberry app for online banking--why?  Why not have a web site that is optimized for smaller screen devices so all mobile devices can use the web site.  Google seems to be able to design decent mobile device-optimized web sites (Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.) so why can't other organizations?  Native apps seem better suited for those applications taking advantage of or accessing the specific hardware of the device, or intended for offline use/don't need constant internet access to function adequately