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You comment like if internet access was a given: always available, fast, (free), etc. which is in practice not the case for everybody everywhere. Availability p
by titanix2 9y ago
You comment like if internet access was a given: always available, fast, (free), etc. which is in practice not the case for everybody everywhere. Availability problems also occur at the other end: remember when GitHub was down because of an issue with Amazon S3.
And it also extend to updates: if a webapp make an update that's breaking productivity for some reason, you're screwed. On the other hand, you can ignore them on desktop and work like you always do.
Also there is the data ownership, privacy and professional secrecy problematics. Why should I give every bits of my data to an external entity who can then do everything with it when I can do the processing on my own hardware? This is a total none sense.
So there is many reasons for desktop app to be still relevant.
- antaviana 9y agoAlso the Store is a deal-breaker for B2B apps. It is not acceptable to not be able to make available an emergency hot fix when your customer somehow depends on your desktop application to make her own money. The Store publishing latency is probably acceptable for free B2C apps, but not for B2B applications.
- mhermher 9y agoThe store is an orthogonal issue to UWP, which can exist independently of the store.
- Kipters 9y agoEnterprises have been able to distribute apps outside the Store since Windows 8.0 back in 2012. With Windows 10 you can just distribute the .appx and install it with a double click (given you've installed its certificate or if its CA is already trusted, which is common in enterprise environments). No Store required.