Hello George ;-)
>>John, honestly, mobile and then web (in that order) are the future.
>>Whether that's tied to the browser as we know it now or not might be debatable.
>>And the server side does not really matter unless you need something highly specialized.
>>Desktop apps today are extremely niche and most development and investment is going into mobile and web. I honestly though this was all common knowledge.
I'm not sure whether you're equating desktop apps to native mobile apps or why you're bringing up these trusims- seems to me that mobile and web are a given in this thread and if people have argued against either, I've missed those posts.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1