Loss of Profit (Score 1)

Why not just provide a gallery of web applications to the masses instead of binary packages to computers. The cost of computers would go down because only basic utilities would be included like the browser, and a media player. Web applications provide a way to interface with a wide range of computer technologies as well as operating systems. People could pay a subscription service to such an application service provider for the monthly or yearly use of the service. I know that if someone really wanted to do it we could write an XML commons for formatting data carried across such a web application service, ranging from spreadsheets to webmail anything can be done online with Rich Applications based on a web application service.