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The thesis that native apps are being supplanted by hybrid apps seems wildly overstated. I have about 500 applications on my Mac (465 in the Applications folde

The thesis that native apps are being supplanted by hybrid apps seems wildly overstated. I have about 500 applications on my Mac (465 in the Applications folder and at least a few dozen others scattered about), and I believe only two of them are hybrid apps (Visual Studio Code and Discord). There might be another two or three I'm forgetting about. In other words, somewhere between 99% and 99.6% of all my applications are native, and I see zero reason to believe that percentage will decline very much in the next few years.

mushufasa 6y ago
how do you have so many applications? Do you just accrue them over time? How many have you used in the last 6 months?
- WaltPurvis 6y ago
  I was honestly shocked just now when I checked the number. Quite a lot of them are small utilities and menu bar apps. Many others were acquired via bundles (e.g., BundleHunt, Paddle, etc.) and a fair number of those I've probably never used. Here's a list of about 60 apps that I've used in the last month: Activity Monitor, Adobe Digital Editions 4.5, AppCode, Bartender 3, BBEdit, BitBar, calibre 4.23, Carbon Copy Cloner, ColorSnapper2, Console, Dash, Discord, Downie 4, EtreCheckPro, Evernote, FastScripts, Firefox, Font Book, GoLand, Google Chrome, HazeOver, Highland 2, IntelliJ IDEA, iTerm, iTunes, Keyboard Maestro, KeyCue, Launchpad, Mactracker, Magnet, Messages, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, OneDrive, Parallels Toolbox, Paste, Paw, PopChar, PopClip, Preview, Safari, Script Editor, Scrivener, shayre, SnapNDrag Pro, Snappy, SQLPro Studio, SQLPro for SQLite, Terminal, TextSoap, TG Pro, Typinator, Vienna, Visual Studio Code, VLC, WebStorm, Window Tidy, Xcode, Xojo.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    To be fair, calling the JetBrains IDEs "native" might be going a bit too far ;)
    - WaltPurvis 6y ago
      They're not what I would call native, but they are native by the definition of the article being discussed, i.e., they're not "hybrid" apps.

mushufasa 6y ago

how do you have so many applications? Do you just accrue them over time? How many have you used in the last 6 months?

WaltPurvis 6y ago
I was honestly shocked just now when I checked the number. Quite a lot of them are small utilities and menu bar apps. Many others were acquired via bundles (e.g., BundleHunt, Paddle, etc.) and a fair number of those I've probably never used. Here's a list of about 60 apps that I've used in the last month: Activity Monitor, Adobe Digital Editions 4.5, AppCode, Bartender 3, BBEdit, BitBar, calibre 4.23, Carbon Copy Cloner, ColorSnapper2, Console, Dash, Discord, Downie 4, EtreCheckPro, Evernote, FastScripts, Firefox, Font Book, GoLand, Google Chrome, HazeOver, Highland 2, IntelliJ IDEA, iTerm, iTunes, Keyboard Maestro, KeyCue, Launchpad, Mactracker, Magnet, Messages, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, OneDrive, Parallels Toolbox, Paste, Paw, PopChar, PopClip, Preview, Safari, Script Editor, Scrivener, shayre, SnapNDrag Pro, Snappy, SQLPro Studio, SQLPro for SQLite, Terminal, TextSoap, TG Pro, Typinator, Vienna, Visual Studio Code, VLC, WebStorm, Window Tidy, Xcode, Xojo.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  To be fair, calling the JetBrains IDEs "native" might be going a bit too far ;)
  - WaltPurvis 6y ago
    They're not what I would call native, but they are native by the definition of the article being discussed, i.e., they're not "hybrid" apps.