Tim has never really been a free software guy really (not against it, just not his issue) and here he was at linuxconf.au where pretty much the whole audience w

Tim has never really been a free software guy really (not against it, just not his issue) and here he was at linuxconf.au where pretty much the whole audience will be FOSS diehards and probably at his talk just to check out that guy who started it all. At the end of the day almost anyone will try to present some common ground there, even if its not super strong. I don't disagree with your assessment of the general concerns web apps, but from a practical perspective its a lot easier to provide FOSS web apps that temper some of these concerns (self hosting, etc.) while still operating within a well tested security framework. To end up in the same position with most current native mobile apps usually requires a device configured for developers with all the security relaxations, difficulties with redistribution and often program fees. Neither one is very awesome, but its not like many ios and android apps dont wall away your data while mining it on remote servers.