[el_chapitan]

While I generally agree with your statement, I think that you may be jumping the gun a tad in terms of the market. The "coattails of the old paradigm" are going to be very important so long as a good network connection isn't guaranteed at all times.

Amazing strides have been made to improve connectivity, but we're not there yet. So long as we're not there, you will continue to see the old paradigm.

[cageface]

Certainly timing is crucial in these things. Sun might have actually been a little too far ahead of its time in the 90's, for example.

Ultimately though we should be thinking of local storage as cache and not anything more privileged.