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This is a good rule of thumb, but web apps have the serious advantage of being (nearly, excluding differences between browsers) platform-agnostic. This saves de
by mrastro 9y ago
This is a good rule of thumb, but web apps have the serious advantage of being (nearly, excluding differences between browsers) platform-agnostic. This saves development time as you pointed out but also allows easier cross-platform support. For example, Skype which wasn't officially supported on Linux (it was left frozen at some ancient version) until it was ported to a web app. After this change, Linux gets the same latest version as all other operating systems.
I don't know about you, but I'd trade any reasonable performance degradation for broader support of a product I use.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe problem is that it is exponential, to the point of having a couple of applications running at the same time, requires a CRAY class computer.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoReasonable, mmkay? Every other webapp-in-a-wrapper seems to go the Win95 way, which was "mine is the only app on the whole computer, let's just hog all the resources!" Nowadays they must be mining bitcoin or whatever, because I don't see what else a messaging app needs a whole core for its entire runtime (looking at you, Slack Desktop).