[beamatronic]

Does anyone make FAANG money developing desktop apps?

[protomyth]

I understand that there is a company in Redmond WA that does pretty well and the folks who once made printer software.

[dgoodell]

The world is going to be a much better place once FAANG is no longer the path to big money and programmers will have to be content with solving real problems for normal amounts of money like the rest of us.

[pjmlp]

Not for consumers, but there are plenty of business applications still being done for desktop, e.g. laboratory automation.

[Qem]

Probably the likes of Autodesk and other expensive, lock-in strong CAD software houses.

[birger]

Yes. The web is not the holy grail to user applications.