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Short-term thinking: they save money of dev effort and assume their users will just tolerate their worse apps. It's easy to sell yourself on the idea of cuttin
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Short-term thinking: they save money of dev effort and assume their users will just tolerate their worse apps.
It's easy to sell yourself on the idea of cutting costs and growth potential to maximize returns now when you're an entrenched market player in a dominant position (as I would argue both GitHub and Spotify are).
Heck, it might even work.
- nkkollaw 9y agoSure, I know they're saving money, but unless you _have_ to use something (Spotify, Skype), many people will choose a competitor instead of your app. One such case is Atom—which from what I know is what Electron was created for: many people use Sublime Text instead. Not because of functionality, but just because Atom is super-slow in comparison, and it won't open or let you work productively with files bigger than 2-5MB. I would argue that the money they save by not going native, they lose from people using better software.