No, what I meant was - what side of the argument are you on, 'desktop apps are harder' or 'web apps are harder' ? ('harder' can be 'more difficult' or 'more tedious' - I'm not making any moral judgements here, my point was that web apps can be made faster and with less knowledge of details that nobody should really know in the first place).
I guess it depends on what desktop stack you're using. It's certainly far easier to toss together a CRUD app with Rails than it is with MFC. "4GL" environments like Powerbuilder make this pretty easy on the desktop too but people don't seem to use them much anymore.
It's certainly a lot easier to build a multi-user app as a web app.
The entire reason I've gone back to native apps after 10+ years of web dev is that I find the kinds of apps well suited for the web to generally be very boring.