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Killing battery life of their users isnt a business reason?

• arvinsim 9y ago
  If doesn't affect their bottomline, then why will they bother?
  • dman 9y ago
    Customers are fickle beasts, they mutter and keep on using a product until they dont.
    • gruez 9y ago
      yet there's no slack competitor that has "better battery life" or "native apps" as one of its selling points.
      • cyphar 9y ago
        Matrix has native clients[1], as well as a weechat plugin. [1]: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quaternion.html https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quaternion.html
    • salvar 9y ago
      So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?
      • dman 9y ago
        Nokia had users who were happy with the solid phones they were building.
        • salvar 9y ago
          So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?
    • raydev 9y ago
      Sure, but it'll ultimately be because of a hot new UX or feature that Slack didn't think of, not battery life.
• rhinoceraptor 9y ago
  All enterprise desktop software is trash. Everyone has to put up with terrible AV, terrible VPN clients, terrible VOIP/video conferencing, etc. There's no incentive to make good software for your users when your users don't have a choice.