[dleslie]

You've even drank some of the koolaid by calling them "client side apps". They're simply applications, or if you must, native applications! ;)

I'm heavily reticent towards using web-based interfaces to remote services, and I think that's healthy and fine. As a developer, of course it's less complicated to not be negotiating network communication in order to create an application!

[ithkuil]

You've even drank some of the koolaid by the personal computer industry to call them applications: real applications clearly run on mainframes and reach the end user via terminal display units!

[colejohnson66]

So if a client side app is just an “app”, what differentiates it from a server side app?

[dleslie]

All of the user's data is controlled, managed, stored, and owned by the user; there are no remote servers.