Hard coded apps--albeit with increasingly sophisticated porting and distribution tools--are here to stay. The last 30 years have shown us computing oscillates

Hard coded apps--albeit with increasingly sophisticated porting and distribution tools--are here to stay. The last 30 years have shown us computing oscillates between thin clients and heavy clients. I have no reason to believe that will change; we just don't know what the next catalyst will be. I firmly believe it is not Google's web app marketplace (insert joke about app store trademark here ;).