Since when is "created by the last batch of YC companies" the benchmark for the direction the industry has been moving? How about: Apple spent the last few years making a huge amount of money pushing a new platform for native apps (iOS). Google and Microsoft followed suit with Android and Windows 8. That's been the story of the last few years. The big movement has been towards tablets, and tablets have been a vehicle for native apps.
Re: web apps sucking--many of the issues you mention are solved on iOS/Android, and can be solved by backup mechanisms like Dropbox.[1] Some of the issues you mention are imagined (OS vendor deleting apps from your computer). Finally, you fail to address the actual point, which is that web apps suck at what they do. The most popular and commonly used web app is probably Google Docs, and it's total shit. It's so shitty that I'm pretty sure AbiWord in 1998 was a better product than Google Docs circa 2013. I can't remember font rendering shittier than Google's PDF viewer in the last decade, and that's going back to GTK 1.x here. It's a cute trick that's helpful in a pinch, but it still sucks compared to even shitty native Office competitors.
[1] It's telling that arguably the most well-known YC company's product is fundamentally based on making it easy to integrate native apps with cloud storage.
Re: web apps sucking--many of the issues you mention are solved on iOS/Android, and can be solved by backup mechanisms like Dropbox.[1] Some of the issues you mention are imagined (OS vendor deleting apps from your computer). Finally, you fail to address the actual point, which is that web apps suck at what they do. The most popular and commonly used web app is probably Google Docs, and it's total shit. It's so shitty that I'm pretty sure AbiWord in 1998 was a better product than Google Docs circa 2013. I can't remember font rendering shittier than Google's PDF viewer in the last decade, and that's going back to GTK 1.x here. It's a cute trick that's helpful in a pinch, but it still sucks compared to even shitty native Office competitors.
[1] It's telling that arguably the most well-known YC company's product is fundamentally based on making it easy to integrate native apps with cloud storage.