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> People crave for native apps. Nobody wants to work from the browser. Some do, some quite the opposite. Me personally i want to have as few desktop apps insta
by masa331 6y ago
> People crave for native apps. Nobody wants to work from the browser.
Some do, some quite the opposite. Me personally i want to have as few desktop apps installed as possible. They are warranted only in few special cases - browser, video & music player, Excel. Other than that there really is no need to have any desktop app nowadays.
> Both of them were recording it on a desktop, in a desktop application, while having a call over another desktop application.
Yeah this can be easily done from browser also
> it’s hard to select text, hard to search on a page, hard to have multiple tabs, hard to move data between apps
excuse me? It's harder to select text or search text in browser than in desktop apps? What? Text search is one ctrl-f away on ANY web page. Switching between tabs in a browser is alt-num.
Desktop apps have no tabs and a lot of times you switch between completely different UIs.
Moving data between apps depends completely on the app itself. It either offers some kind of data export or does not. It doesn't have to do anything with desktop apps or web apps in general
> For example, you are adding an event to the calendar. You need to lookup an address for the event in the mail, which has a link that opens a browser.
Yeah in a web apps you at least have some unique link to it. Linking to something on your local computer in some desktop app isn't even possible
> Ability to have multiple windows open at the same time is the desktop’s superpower.
You know you can have multiple tabs open in one browser right?
I like Nikita's articles and if he or anybody prefers desktop over web that's fine. Also the library he is starting - great. But the announcement could really omit the nonsensical comparisons and generalisations of web vs desktop
- d3nj4l 6y ago> > it’s hard to select text, hard to search on a page, hard to have multiple tabs, hard to move data between apps > excuse me? It's harder to select text or search text in browser than in desktop apps? What? Text search is one ctrl-f away on ANY web page. Switching between tabs in a browser is alt-num. That is clearly about mobile in contrast to Desktop.
- masa331 6y agoAh ok, thanks. This makes more sense now. But on a seconds thought - there are people who really "work" on phone? I just can't do anything serious from phone be it native app or web app. The experience is so much worse for me that it didn't even cross my mind it's about phones.
- d3nj4l 6y agoNot all the incredible, to be honest. Apple has pushed the iPad as a laptop replacement, and that was well before it got the desktop-ish features it has now.
- tleb_ 6y agoI believe he talks about mobile platforms: > And I’ve been on both sides. I lived without a desktop for a few weeks once. Mobile platforms, on which selecting and searching text is hard, switching between tabs is slow and multitasking between apps is made complicated by: > By the time you found what you needed and returned to the calendar, it has been unloaded from memory and all context is lost