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Younger devs didn't care about spending a few months learning to build efficient desktop applications.



Also, all the college classes and the bootcamps for programming are geared towards webdev. Skipping the largest desktop platform in the world with 80% market share, and 38% share overall for all OSes both mobile and desktop.


Everything is a service now, ownership of software doesn't exist outside of forced arbitration through terms of service.




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