[tekdude]

> Are there many applications these days which are not available as a "web app" aka website?

Pretty much no, with a few exceptions:

1. Any kind of hardcore gaming

2. Any kind of CPU/memory/disk intensive media production software (though this is becoming less so)

3. Any kind of infrastructure application; you wouldn't run a web server or database in the browser (yet)

[fr2null]

4. Any kind of application that needs to interface with a server that doesn't support TCP (webRTC kinda solves that, but not really, at least not yet)

5. Any kind of application that needs to feel fast. I have a pretty fast phone & computer, but I really feel the difference between a web app and a native app. A bit of data viewing is alright on the internet, but real productivity for prolonged periods of time? I'd rather have a native app.

6. Anything at all that needs to interface with your device. Web apps are extremely locked down, and for good reason, but this does mean that you can't use them as a file manager for instance.

Applications that only need to display, search and edit some data are absolutely fine as a webapp. Anything else gets a lot harder. Although I do feel like we are slowly shifting to more and more web based apps. For better or for worse.

[kyriakos]

even office applications the web based offerings are years behind their native desktop versions. they are good for some basic work but if you need to do proper work you have to use the desktop versions in most occasions.