> Web APIs will and should become the standard way of
  > developing apps across platforms

God forbid. There are few lamer things than those Web APIs. Why do you think the gazzilion of frameworks exists, if not to work around all the things broken? And take a look at the web in 2005 and now, see what real progress was made. Yep, we got a bunch of half-baked APIs, which will never mature, because all the crowd already run forwrad to tick another checkbox.