Nevertheless, as a user I would indeed prefer native GUI desktop app talking to their web server for data over a web site. Perhaps people would develop apps th

Nevertheless, as a user I would indeed prefer native GUI desktop app talking to their web server for data over a web site. Perhaps people would develop apps this way if there was a native GUI framework as powerful and easy as web frontend frameworks are and if there was a way to publish you apps a way people could discover and run them in a couple of clicks. Perhaps MS UWP with WPF and Windows Store could do the job much better than web apps but sadly it's not cross-platform.