It's a bit of a one sided view. For someone trying to commercialize their simplistic application, it seems to make perfectly sense. The article is missing the

It's a bit of a one sided view. For someone trying to commercialize their simplistic application, it seems to make perfectly sense. The article is missing the down-sides/limitations of web apps though, especially from a user perspective. Bingo Card users are in luck that the author has kept maintaining the site for 15years, but I'd say 9/10 "web apps" would not last 5 years, where a desktop application, I could at least continuing using, assuming the activation doesn't require external checks. And then in this day and age, you never know when the enshitification of applications sets in. Yes, this can happen to desktop applications as well, but as the author points out, it's much faster to release something "new" on the web. You can A/B test the web app to max profitability, regardless of user experience or user needs. Finally, for more complex applications, the latency on desktop applications has been severely underplayed. With web apps and web apps as desktop apps, people have been pushed into a new expectation of how fast computers can be.