>>What I'm saying is that we're getting richer and richer applications to run as Web applications, and fewer and fewer apps are being done as desktop apps. When is the last time somebody asked for a new application as a standalone desktop application?

That's possibly true for the PC arena. It's different on mobile devices where native apps have better features and offer a much better experience than web apps. Who knows where the data will end up... sometimes it does make sense to outsource data to a server off somewhere in the mist/cloud, but we only need to see a few more severe outages or data losses as have been demonstrated by prestigious cloud providers including MS and Amazon in recent months, and looking after your own data starts making sense again.