Some do, some quite the opposite. Me personally i want to have as few desktop apps installed as possible. They are warranted only in few special cases - browser, video & music player, Excel. Other than that there really is no need to have any desktop app nowadays.
> Both of them were recording it on a desktop, in a desktop application, while having a call over another desktop application.
Yeah this can be easily done from browser also
> it’s hard to select text, hard to search on a page, hard to have multiple tabs, hard to move data between apps
excuse me? It's harder to select text or search text in browser than in desktop apps? What? Text search is one ctrl-f away on ANY web page. Switching between tabs in a browser is alt-num.
Desktop apps have no tabs and a lot of times you switch between completely different UIs.
Moving data between apps depends completely on the app itself. It either offers some kind of data export or does not. It doesn't have to do anything with desktop apps or web apps in general
> For example, you are adding an event to the calendar. You need to lookup an address for the event in the mail, which has a link that opens a browser.
Yeah in a web apps you at least have some unique link to it. Linking to something on your local computer in some desktop app isn't even possible
> Ability to have multiple windows open at the same time is the desktop’s superpower.
You know you can have multiple tabs open in one browser right?
I like Nikita's articles and if he or anybody prefers desktop over web that's fine. Also the library he is starting - great. But the announcement could really omit the nonsensical comparisons and generalisations of web vs desktop