Desktop apps are dead?

According to Marc Canter:

“But Chris” I asked. “Desktop based OSes are completely dead! How many of those 4,200 WWDC Apple developers are making any money off of being Mac developers?” “Dude - its all up in the cloud nowadays - nobody is gonna tie their app or service into a specific Mac desktop OS!”

I *totally* disagree. If I just look at MicroContent Management, the relevant desktop apps are much much better than any comparable web-service in terms of functionality offered. And with further integration of these apps with Internet through API's, the desktop apps are only getting better. And even more progress can be made to the desktop app world, keeping it ahead of the web. And this is an opportunity for app developers. There is still much to, which is not yet done by Apple. But it requires more work than Yet Another Web2.0 App.

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