While there is nothing against having a mobile platform mature enough to provide a better browser and browsing experience (like the NIT's), that does not go against the reason for having desktop apps. A good desktop app can integrate many facets of different apps (via API's etc) to provide a more enhanced mobile experience (which a browser app can do too - think tweetdesk, iGoogle etc, cant think of much now). Again a good desktop app with Maemo API's van integrate these disparate apps with the Maemo based device data. Like getting contacts to integrate with Calendar with Google calendar with Facebook contacts with Yahoo Contacts (much like what Pre does I suppose). If everything was supposed to have been done via browser, why do we cry for a good PIM app on the NIT and not use some online PIM tool itself ? No sir, a browser based app all the time doesn't cut the mustard all the time.