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I reviewed the apps I have on my iPhone, and most can be released as a Web app right now. (…)

The graphically simple games such as sudoku and chess, the interactive shopping lists, the dictionaries and bible citation apps, the beer appreciation apps, the firmware Yahoo weather app, and most importantly all social network clients could have been written as a Web app without any loss of quality whatsoever. (Most have fairly little quality to lose in any case.)

Somehow they were leapt on by a gang who robbed them not only of their money but all their clothes. For good measure the gang spray-painted their tag across the naked chests of the three boys, who were forced to walk home naked, petrified and yet altered: “That day” Roger likes to reminisce, not altogether ironically, “we became men.”

Those things don’t happen in New York any more. But some people wish they did. Perhaps it’s because in their minds there’s a correlation between the crackdown on crime in the city — which started in the Giuliani era and was cemented by Michael Bloomberg, the current Mayor — and the perceived loss of the city’s cultural supremacy, a gradual nose-dive that began some time after September 11 and snowballed once the economic crisis was in full tilt.