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Sure. With a significant effort you can almost be as good as a native application, except not quite. The benefits you mentioned is not exclusive to web apps. T
by kpil 11y ago
Sure. With a significant effort you can almost be as good as a native application, except not quite.
The benefits you mentioned is not exclusive to web apps. There are no inherent benefits, except perhaps licence management, which benefits the service provider more, and the fact that there already is a server side to use for features like collaboration.
- dozzie 11y agoThere are two closely coupled benefits: ease of installation (one machine to do so) and ease of upgrade (again, single machine). That said, I much prefer desktop applications to web-based ones, especially when it's not me who hosts them. They may disappear overnight, they may break overnight, I don't control backups for them, I need constant internet access to use them (sometimes I work off-line, so this is a big no-no). And web applications on modern hardware (which I don't own, because why should I? my Dell D830 works satisfactory) are almost as fast as desktop applications on my older hardware. Meaning, they're slow.