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How about: MacOS and Linux are hugely over represented among developers, but all the customers (who aren’t on mobile) use Windows. We don’t want to switch to W
by closeparen 5y ago
How about: MacOS and Linux are hugely over represented among developers, but all the customers (who aren’t on mobile) use Windows.
We don’t want to switch to Windows ourselves, and we also don’t want to foreclose on the Windows audience.
Finally I don’t think it’s the case that very many of today’s web applications would even make sense as single-user desktop applications. They are fundamentally structured ways of communicating with other people, not of interacting strictly with one’s own data. The server part is essential.