"Native" software is not going to be killed by hosted web apps, as it still offers users one thing 3rd-party-hosted SaaS never will, full control of the data it

"Native" software is not going to be killed by hosted web apps, as it still offers users one thing 3rd-party-hosted SaaS never will, full control of the data it generates and manipulates, an empowerment that hosted services are unable to match due to financial and political pressures. That said, it is rather obvious that the use of software which offers the option to store its data exclusively on equipment owned by the user (software which may increasingly be based on HTML5 languages and frameworks as well), will certainly be much more limited as bandwidth becomes more available, simply thanks to the convenience of not having to manage storage.