Do you agree with this statement?

"If an application can be easily implemented inside a browser, then it should be implemented that way."

I'm looking at this from both a usability perspective and a marketing perspective.

This article pretty much sums up how corporate bean counters fuck themselves in the ass with contradictory rip-off marketing that cancels itself out, ie want everyone to be on cloud but fuck everyone over on access to online content
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/5-ways-technology-actually-getting-worse-184339209.html