Honestly I don't think this is the reason. I'm a web developer and more than once have chosen the web for a target simply because it....made more sense from eve

Honestly I don't think this is the reason. I'm a web developer and more than once have chosen the web for a target simply because it....made more sense from every angle. There was just no incentive to build a desktop app that wouldn't offer anything the user couldn't get by going to a web app. There are plenty of use cases where this isn't true, but for a lot of apps it is going to be the case.