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So you would seriously suggest that none of these apps are productivity tools: Visual Studio Code Slack / Teams / Skype Fastmail / Gmail / Protonmail etc GS
by ecmascript 6y ago
So you would seriously suggest that none of these apps are productivity tools:
Visual Studio Code
Slack / Teams / Skype
Fastmail / Gmail / Protonmail etc
GSuite / Office365
Figma
Conference apps like Google Meet, Discord etc
Pixlr
Music apps like Spotify, Tidal, Youtube Music, Apple Music etc
Trello / Jira etc
Seriously, there is only a few apps that I use that are not web apps. Suggesting that these multi million projects would be toy projects is just silly and ignorant.
You're the typical HN elitist, good job.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThat's not what I said ? A lot of them are doing their best, but they are worse off being run in a browser ! For instance the Electron apps not only are generally slower than native programs, but if they are designed to also work in parallel in-browser (or god forbid, mobile), they are likely to be crippled in their keyboard shortcuts, or, as I already mentioned, multi-windows, both of those being foreign to web design. - The new Skype is much worse than the old one. - Gmail and Protonmail are much slower than Thunderbird. Protonmail also has less features. - Gsuite is slower and has less features than Libre Office… with the exception of real-time collaborative editing, pushing it into a category of its own. - Discord is perhaps the only program in this list that I've used that I would classify as "good", though it can sometimes be a bit heavy…