[majidazimi]

The number of small scale desktop applications (like restaurant accounting/billing or tax management) in Turkey or similar markets exceeds all forms of mobile/web apps combined. In my home town in Iran, C# desktop developer is the number one job offer for the last 10-15 years. The market is full of small businesses that need simple desktop apps to run the business.

[kragen]

Why would you want to build a restaurant accounting/billing app as a desktop app instead of a browser app?

[ivanhoe]

Just a few things that come to mind:

- Because you still need to bill your customers even when the net is down or slow,

- It works faster and more reliable on old, low on memory PC that you probably have. Also can work with old printers, barcode readers and pretty much anything out there,

- Power of habit (a big deal),

- Don't want to keep your accounting details on a remote server. This is probably of less importance for restaurants, but very important point for various trading companies, as it's not uncommon for someone to bribe accounting firms to leak info on competition.

[astura]

Because that's what the jobs that are hiring are for in the place the GP lives? I mean, I'd rather browse HN than do work all day, but nobody's going to pay me for that.

I was an early web developer who transitioned into a modern one as time passed but I've moved back to desktop application development as of late because that's what was hiring in my area at the time I was looking for a job and I simply am not married to a particular technology.

[briandear]

Because you can do more with a desktop app than a browser app. Not everything is or should be in the goddamned cloud.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I'd ask the opposite question.