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Why doesn’t Slack write an actual Mac app in Swift? For small companies with limited resources, I understand the attraction of “cross platform,” but it would se
by briandear 8y ago
Why doesn’t Slack write an actual Mac app in Swift? For small companies with limited resources, I understand the attraction of “cross platform,” but it would seem that performance and uasability would be vastly improved by writing actual native applications — especially for a billion dollar company that can afford to do it and especially since Slack is one of those apps that is constantly open and performance and efficiency have a real benefit.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThey've cornered the market and don't have to care anymore. A lot of Slack's audience is captive - employees, contributors to open source projects that chose Slack as their social outlet, etc.
- Despegar 8y agoThe only way this will change is if Apple starts using more "stick" approaches. Marzipan and whatever other technologies they're working on are the "carrot".
- eschaton 8y agoAmen. “Cross-platform UI” has always meant “doesn’t work well.”
- jtd514 8y agoYeah at this point they are basically jerks for not building something better. The reality is they dont have to care.
- ksec 8y agoTelegram, an Open Sources IM, has Native Clients on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android.