IMHO The author is blowing this out of proportion. He is comparing an iPhone photo editing app to PhotoShop or asimple iPhone game like chopper to games like Ha

IMHO The author is blowing this out of proportion. He is comparing an iPhone photo editing app to PhotoShop or asimple iPhone game like chopper to games like Halo. These are two different levels of software. It is amazing what software can be written for mobile apps today but they are still not as fully functional as their desktop equivalents. The Mac App Store is going to be a big push for Desktop App developers to lower their costs slightly but you are still getting more functionality out of Pages for Mac OS X rather than Pages for iPad. Though Mobile Apps may continue to grow as an industry I think we are still a few years away from seeing a serious threat to high functionality desktop applications.