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Well, it's become very clear that native apps are a nightmare for sys admins. Things break, badly and irreproducably. Each app has its own architecture that must be understood to get anything really done. Each app has its own UI paradigms. Etc. The usability is awful. Writing connected applications is a wreck. People say, "oh, but what about offline?" Guess what? Any client/server app is just as broken offline as a Web app, and you have to jump through just as many hoops for syncing, the only benefit is that you have local storage to save changes if the app closes before a sync occurs.

So while Web apps don't unleash this huge wave of new possibilities, they DO make life so much easier in other ways, ways that *have* been roadblocks to getting things done.

J.Ja