People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They?

Annie Peterson writes "Paul Graham has been making the argument that desktop development is dead — That's his premise for declaring Microsoft dead as well, and he claims that no one out there likes to develop for the desktop anymore. But that's not true, or is it? Desktop development is easier, faster, more productive, and infinitely more enjoyable — right? The question is, since web apps were originally built on desktop applications themselves, have the tables flipped? Or is it just wishful thinking?"

Comments

Passe...

[MarkRose]

Desktop programming is so nineties. I'm a laptop programmer!

Re:Passe...

[MarkRose]

Haven't upgraded to notebooks yet?

I did in '03, but then I lost my pencil.

Web? Desktop?

[jackb_guppy]

Real Men code GREEN SCREEN!

It runs faster! It is more secure!

Re:Firefox 3.0

[8-bitDesigner]

Oh man, I can use GMail without a network connection now?

SWEET!

Re:You make few assumptions which aren't always tr

[Anonymous Coward]

So you're the guy who keeps screwing up my paychecks. I would love to know how hours are just randomly dropped from my paycheck.

Re:Firefox 3.0

[RuBLed]

Haven't heard of GMail Paper yet?

Re:Firefox 3.0

[kalirion]

And I bet you'll be able to play online games and download movies offline too!

Poor Robert O'Callahan

[Anonymous Coward]

"Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox"
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Now that's what I call an unreasonable commute!
Can't the poor man afford a car?

Re:Firefox 3.0

[rjshields]

Man, I can't wait for someone to write an AJAX version of Photoshop that I can use offline. It could be just like the real thing but fifty times slower!