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> SPAs have made almost all desktop applications obsolete. Adobe, office for desktop, text editors, video games, my command line, iTunes, yada yada yada. Nativ
by jcalabro 8y ago
> SPAs have made almost all desktop applications obsolete.
Adobe, office for desktop, text editors, video games, my command line, iTunes, yada yada yada. Native applications are a hugely important part of my computer usage and I personally prefer to keep it that way.
- naranha 8y agoSure they are still important, but isn't everything that CAN be made into a web application made into one? Just because there are so many advantages: The applications travel with you, no need for manual backups, more secure (I try to completly avoid clicking on exe files on Windows), no installation/maintenance required. And don't young people use YouTube/Amazon Music/Google Play to listen to music these days? I'm a developer so of course I still use a lot of desktop apps, but for the normal user, the only thing that rivals the convenience of web apps are Android/iPhone apps, but nobody enjoys writing those.. So perhaps they will get replaced by something based on web technologies too one day.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoThere are many disadvantages too: they're slower than native apps, they require an internet connection, someone else has all your work on their servers, your user experience is entirely at their mercy, you never really own anything, etc.