From inkandswitch.com on their first podcast episode<p>> All in all, we speculate that web apps will never be able to provide all the local-first properties we are looking for, due to the fundamental thin-client nature of the platform. By choosing to build a web app, you are choosing the path of data belonging to you and your company, not to your users.<p>This is just wrong, consider cups with a headless backend at 127.0.0.1, but in there doing whatever it needs to do.<p>Browsers are too good at being universal frontends to ban them according to shaky dogma.