This is a bit of old news for someone who's been following this since the original Linux powering Munich experiments in the early 2000's.

While native apps are arguably better for data entry heavy apps and everything's a web app these days, that everything's a web app today makes it easier for end users to run any OS. That said, it also means you can no longer do whatever you want with the "documents" produced by the app because they live in a database in their data center.