There's an app for that!

So we've all heard this phrase recently, especially since the iPhone has started to take a hold of the market. Personally I have a Blackberry and its the same "there's an app for that".

I cant help thinking why we need all these apps? Are we going back in time to early 1990's internet? I realise that there are bandwidth restrictions and what not, but with G3 and the Web browsers on Windows starting to adhere to standards and the like, I think this is one of the innovations we are yet to see on the mobile device.

All these guys need to look towards HTML5 and start properly developing their browsers to handle the next generation of browsing standards. Only then might we see web developers building web applications for mobile browsers rather than another app for this and another app for that.

Why cant we have the same standard of development on the mobile that we currently enjoy on the desktop? I want Facebook on my mobile, and I want it with all the applications inside Facebook that I have on the desktop. I want to be able to open Youtube, listen to streaming music, browse to iPlayer, hell I might even want to look at porn.

At the moment, the only real contender I can see for this sort of thing might be Opera's mobile browser, ok so we cant do any of the things I mentioned already, but will it be Opera that drives the idea? Are Opera the only people offering a decent mobile browser for multiple devices?

Until Mozilla/Microsoft/Google make a move I guess we're just going to have to wait and see.