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> I so want this abomination of a technology uninvented. Good enough beats perfect almost every time. The real fail is that the major desktop OSes have spent
by indymike 5y ago
> I so want this abomination of a technology uninvented.
Good enough beats perfect almost every time. The real fail is that the major desktop OSes have spent the last 20 years jockeying for a monopoly on how software is made on and distributed their platforms. Apple and MS (and even the Linux desktops to a lesser degree) want me to have to build and maintain completely separate apps for their platforms to unlock all of the capability in their GUI.
You know what I want as a user? I want to be able to buy Affinity Designer and run in on whatever device I have. I don't want to care about Mac, Windows, Linux Chromebook or whatever. I would love to have some real Adobe apps on Linux.
As a software developer, it's about time that we stop having the native vs. whatever universal GUI layer debate, too. I've never seen a single ticket for an Electron app where the user was reporting that my app wasn't MacOS-y or Windows-y enough. I have seen plenty of tickets with native apps where something isn't right with the clipboard, print menu or or some component wouldn't correctly embed on a paste.
- grishka 5y agoAlmost everyone is making native mobile apps — two copies of the same thing, for Android and iOS — but for desktop, it's suddenly something infeasible? Why so? It has always been other way around in my mind — my phone is an auxiliary limited communication device that's awkward to type on. Yet for almost every IT company with a mainstream product, phones are first-class, and computers are an afterthought. How so?
- indymike 5y agoMore users.