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What would be worse, marizpan apps or electron apps?
by novok 8y ago
What would be worse, marizpan apps or electron apps?
- olliej 8y agoboth are terrible, but I might actually lean towards marzipan being worse, because at least electron apps acknowledge they're not running on a phone? But I feel it's quite close
- saagarjha 8y agoMarzipan apps use fewer system resources, at least, and they tend to respond to platform conventions better (you know it's a low bar when I'm saying this about Marzipan :/)
- olliej 8y agotrue, battery life is probably better, but I'm still super worried by the ui convention and design. But yeah, we're not talking about high bars here :(
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoWe can always hope, but the Marzipan apps I have used so far (News and Stocks) are incredibly slow and don't adhere to platform conventions at all. I truly hope (and believe) that they are not representative of what Marzipan will be able to do in the future. I have never used a single Electron app that was nearly as bad. In fact all Electron apps I have used are pretty good (VS Code, Spotify, Exodus). Yes they do use more memory, but not nearly enough to pose a problem for my 2012 Mac mini with 8GB RAM.
- matwood 8y ago> but the Marzipan apps I have used so far (News and Stocks) are incredibly slow and don't adhere to platform conventions at all I agree. We do not have much to judge off of yet, so I'm holding out hope these are not final examples. Apple knew people would find out what was being worked on so went ahead and gave a small early preview. What we see at this years WWDC will be telling.
- scarface74 8y agoThat’s the entire point of the article. Even though you could take an iPad app and make it work on a Mac, you shouldn't. Just like you can take an iPhone app, and make it work on a 12.9 inch iPad with no changes, even though you should make interfaces changes that make it take advantage of the larger screen.