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by chrisringrose 4914 days ago
Furthermore, the number one selling laptop on Amazon.com right now is a Chromebook: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Comput...

In other words, the number one selling laptop today can't run any desktop applications - just web apps. I'm a developer, and I simply can't ignore this.

It's time to focus our efforts on fixing the obstacles web apps face, instead of doubling-down on desktop/native apps because they're easier to make, or run slightly faster.