yes, but if im stil up to date on that, it has its own gui frameworks that your app is tied to forever. Might aswell write the app in Cocoa or Win32 then.

Correct me if Im wrong, can you deploy your client side web app as a desktop application without using the Titanium framework stuff?

I believe you're correct about the framework. I think Titanium apps are packaged with the framework statically "linked", instead of installed separately.

The Titanium mobile API is basically JS bindings for Cocoa, but the desktop API is mostly OS agnostic.

In my opinion, Titanium was smart to make one version for mobile and one for desktops. Adobe should have done the same.