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> As a user environment where I can download packages and visual apps to run locally? It's almost like the computer needs the ability to run applications separ

> As a user environment where I can download packages and visual apps to run locally? It's almost like the computer needs the ability to run applications separate from the browser, to achieve tasks that are unrelated... What an idea that would be! However some of the tasks you mention are very trivial. It seems hard to believe that you think a dedicated "app" is required for example your first example "convert a string to caps". This can be solved several ways on macOS out of the box. TextEdit: New Document, (paste content), select all, Edit > Transformations > Make Upper Case Terminal: pbpaste | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | pbcopy Edit: oh and I forgot to mention, Preview.app (also built in) will open a gif as a series of image frames, so you can do as you wish with them.

mastrsushi 5y ago
Nice snide remarks, except you forgot, browsers run on phones.
- stephenr 5y ago
  I’m so sorry I completely overlooked that. Maybe one day we’ll be able to install apps on phones too!
  - mastrsushi 5y ago
    Continuing to avoid the subject of the thread. excellent argument! So your solution seems to be Unix tools on the desktop and cluttering your smartphone with 1000 apps. Both sets of software being incompatible with each other platform. Yeah, not quite what I was looking for.
    - stephenr 5y ago
      Well iOS apps run on Arm Macs. Even before that, there were Catalyst based apps. So, yes. > You know the whole reason I brought up the browser. No I really don't. > So your solution seems to be Unix tools on the desktop and cluttering your smartphone with 1000 apps. Nice editing of the previous comment to have completely different content. I gave you two different suggestions: unix tools, that will work anywhere you can get a POSIX shell; or an example of what the built-in GUI tools can do on one platform.
      - mastrsushi 5y ago
        >Well iOS apps run on Arm Macs I forgot everyone owns and is willing to own a Mac. >No I really don't. Oh, I'm aware you don't.
        stephenr 5y ago
        > I forgot everyone owns and is willing to own a Mac. You didn't specify a platform, you just asked if something is possible in the future. I said its possible now. If your chosen platform vendor doesn't want to support that use-case, that's their and your issue, not mine.
        mastrsushi 5y ago
        >You didn't specify a platform The browser is a platform. A big fact you seem to be missing.
        stephenr 5y ago
        If you say so. The existence of this thread seems to indicate it's either a very poor excuse for a "platform" or you're using a very loose definition of "platform".
        mastrsushi 5y ago
        >Using a thread on a programming forum as evidence of a platforms relevance or definition. Again, great argument.

mastrsushi 5y ago

Nice snide remarks, except you forgot, browsers run on phones.

stephenr 5y ago
I’m so sorry I completely overlooked that. Maybe one day we’ll be able to install apps on phones too!
- mastrsushi 5y ago
  Continuing to avoid the subject of the thread. excellent argument! So your solution seems to be Unix tools on the desktop and cluttering your smartphone with 1000 apps. Both sets of software being incompatible with each other platform. Yeah, not quite what I was looking for.
  - stephenr 5y ago
    Well iOS apps run on Arm Macs. Even before that, there were Catalyst based apps. So, yes. > You know the whole reason I brought up the browser. No I really don't. > So your solution seems to be Unix tools on the desktop and cluttering your smartphone with 1000 apps. Nice editing of the previous comment to have completely different content. I gave you two different suggestions: unix tools, that will work anywhere you can get a POSIX shell; or an example of what the built-in GUI tools can do on one platform.
    - mastrsushi 5y ago
      >Well iOS apps run on Arm Macs I forgot everyone owns and is willing to own a Mac. >No I really don't. Oh, I'm aware you don't.
      - stephenr 5y ago
        > I forgot everyone owns and is willing to own a Mac. You didn't specify a platform, you just asked if something is possible in the future. I said its possible now. If your chosen platform vendor doesn't want to support that use-case, that's their and your issue, not mine.
        mastrsushi 5y ago
        >You didn't specify a platform The browser is a platform. A big fact you seem to be missing.
        stephenr 5y ago
        If you say so. The existence of this thread seems to indicate it's either a very poor excuse for a "platform" or you're using a very loose definition of "platform".
        mastrsushi 5y ago
        >Using a thread on a programming forum as evidence of a platforms relevance or definition. Again, great argument.