I see your point but I don’t know if I agree with your conclusion. Browser stuff is popular because we have been in a local minimum, where people (consumers) do

I see your point but I don’t know if I agree with your conclusion. Browser stuff is popular because we have been in a local minimum, where people (consumers) don’t want to pay for software. Native software did exist but only the big guys found success, ie Microsoft, and that was often because of the enterprise space. With the browser, networked applications came to the foreground, and also a sneaky way to make money which was trading the apps/services for their data. If you follow the money, this is why browser tools have gotten where they are. In the meanwhile, it’s not like native hasn’t been doing anything. There is the entire mobile space that cropped up in the meanwhile and it makes some people a lot of money. Also, most native tools and apps are actually miles better in some ways, eg developing apps for iOS, but not many developers know because the world (read: money) has become web in the meanwhile. This probably won’t last btw. There is already backlash, people will start realizing that simply payinh for what you value is essentially a more direct way of voting for how you want the world to be, and business/technology will continue to follow the money. Maybe a universal app container, like the web, but with native-like OS integrations will be the future, especially with future resource heavy technology on the horizon, like ML and AR/VR. But who knows? Anyways, it’s not because os vendors don’t have their shit together. It’s because computing is still nascent and consumers have been cheap, so the revolution was funded elsewhere and that will of course change. (Typed on my phone so sorry for typos)