Introducing Cross-Apps (xApps
xApps are hybrid apps that are both decentralized and centralized at the same time — I can already hear you shouting “Nonsense… Sorcery… Burn him!” but please, read on.

Although I agree that once you get the bug, decentralization becomes your “raison d’être” and that we cannot trade it for “cheap” centralization, I strongly believe we have to think and act more strategically in order to find a common ground so that we can reach a decentralized world sooner rather than later.

You may have heard the terms Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement before? For those who don’t, both are widespread web development techniques which are about ensuring a website is usable for most browsers

Graceful Degradation focuses on designing for modern browsers and having only the basic functionality on older browsers
Progressive Enhancement focuses on designing for all browsers and having extra functionality for modern browsers.
Most DApps creators are so obsessed with all the good things a decentralized world would bring that they tend to forget they are using a super cutting-edge browser while 99% of the web is still using a standard browser.

Whichever of those two approaches they choose, every respectable DApp developer should be conscious of how to make their app work within a more standard setup that would cover the technical and psychological flaws cited above.