While I don't have a good sense of the market, I think desktop has some compelling advantages. On the developer end, what would you do if you had an EC2 C5XL w

While I don't have a good sense of the market, I think desktop has some compelling advantages. On the developer end, what would you do if you had an EC2 C5XL with a massive disk for each and every one of your users, for free? From a startup scenario, there's runway to be gained by offloading storage and processing to the client, desktop can bring monthly ops costs down to the basement. On the consumer end, a single user perpetual license can be extremely cost effective. I'm watching the Google Stadia release for an idea of what a resource intensive cloud solution will really cost. I think it remains to be seen. Desktop is certainly becoming niche--but I think it will rule certain software domains, specifically those that have high storage and processing requirements, for a long time.