>Because of this unstated (and absurd) assumption, Jeff's critique fails to address most of Michael's points - whether you agree with those points or not. Mich

>Because of this unstated (and absurd) assumption, Jeff's critique fails to address most of Michael's points - whether you agree with those points or not. Michael only had two points: web programming sucks, and web programmers suck. Jeff dismissed the latter in favor of tackling the former, and I think he did rather well. I could see designers— instead of paying $500 for Photoshop— pay $15/mo to use an online editing service that stores and backs up their photos for them (or syncs with Dropbox). I could see programmers paying a monthly fee to use an online IDE that builds and runs their software against an array of OSes and supports GitHub/Bitbucket. Users are already throwing their music to "the cloud" with services like Grooveshark and Pandora. These are the kind of things Jeff was talking about: as the web becomes more popular, and the cost of processing power and storage continues to fall, many things we consider too heavy for the web will start to leak in. At least, that was my take on it.