Desktop vs Web Apps
This cluster centers on debates about whether web apps have replaced desktop apps, their respective advantages, and if desktop applications are obsolete or making a comeback amid trends toward web and mobile development.
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Do you seriously believe that webapps would eventually replace desktop apps ?
You prefer web apps to desktop apps?
Because people use desktop apps all the time now...
And web apps are supposed to replace desktop apps...
Why not just go back to desktop apps instead of mobile desktop apps?
Will you still prefer desktop app if you get all its benefits with web app?
People still write desktop apps?
They clearly think desktop apps are obsolete.
I'm surprised by this sentiment. I thought web apps had 'won' on the desktop? Is the pendulum starting to swing the other way?
There isn't much ideas today that are applicable mainly as desktop applications.