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More integration between desktop and web environments. Eventually becoming a one inseparable instance.

• karzeem 19y ago
  Yes, definitely. From a UI perspective, the power of the desktop is something no web app can touch. Web apps are around because the thing they do that desktop apps don't--pulling information from other computers into the cloud--is hugely powerful, obviously. The developments of the past few years notwithstanding, I think the future of front ends is tipped heavily in favor of desktop apps that are tightly integrated with information culled from web services. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates alluded to this in their interview at D. The iPhone, incidentally, is a great, early example of how local apps can trounce the sort of UI you'd find on the web while still adding value to the web apps they integrate with. Also next, I think, is going to be users increasingly expecting that any site they visit should recognize them.