You know how you try to say something, only to find that someone else has expressed your thoughts in simple, to-the-point language? It’s so great when you come across it, as I did with Nick Bradbury’s post on Web 2.01. Back in early September I wrote about what I called Web 2.5, essentially the current “bubble” taking advantage of rich clients. Here’s what Nick had to say:

It’s a mistake to rule out the desktop.

I rely on a number of excellent web apps and I expect to see the web continue to become the dominant application platform, but I believe reports of the death of desktop apps are greatly exaggerated. The future of the web isn’t entirely web-based.

Over the next few years we’ll see a number of new desktop apps which take advantage of the web as a platform, providing many of the benefits of a web app with the speed, usability and (in some cases) privacy of a desktop app. The next version of FeedDemon, for example, ties into an online API, and it enables customers to choose which data lives “out there” on the web and which stays private to their computer. We’re going to see much more of this.

Right on Nick! I completely agree – we’re going to see some killer rich client apps come out in the next couple years, especially once Windows Vista hits. Of course, the rich clients that take advantage of the web as a platform will not be limited to Windows, but I think that’s where we’ll see the apps that make the biggest impact.

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