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This is an extremely short-sighted view of the web. There are many advantages to web apps vs native, the biggest of which is that I can access the same app with

This is an extremely short-sighted view of the web. There are many advantages to web apps vs native, the biggest of which is that I can access the same app with the same configuration from (hypothetically) any browser on any device. It is also (generally) easier to develop a web app than a native app, all else being equal. Personally, there are plenty of services I would never use if they required me to install a native app.

inetknght 8y ago
In theory, the internet should be a place where our conflicting opinions about how to use our hardware can coexist. Unfortunately, the internet is slowly evolving where that's not the case. If we want to turn the web into native apps, that's fine. Give me the same amount of control over the web that I have over native apps. With a native app, I can control exactly how much CPU/disk/network it uses. I can have the app re/start automatically and I can work with it natively in literally whatever language I choose. Not only that but the web browser typically does a piss-poor job of isolation between sites. With a web app, everything is more difficult (if not nigh-on impossible). And what do I, as the end user, actually gain in the end? Nothing that I didn't have ten years ago with far less complexity. Ultimately at the end of the day it's my device. Some random third party person should not be permitted to use my device to execute or store whatever they want just because I randomly, accidentally, or was coerced into clicking on a malicious URL.