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Installing and managing updates on the desktop sucks. It will always suck I think. There's no single ecosystem to target, and each will have it's own story. It'

Installing and managing updates on the desktop sucks. It will always suck I think. There's no single ecosystem to target, and each will have it's own story. It's why Java almost took off in this space. But hey, a webapp? You're already in your browser and don't have to install anything. User acquisition suddenly becomes so much easier. So those apps win, even if they wrap their web app in a shitty browser to get on the desktop.

tabtab 4y ago
Then create a GUI markup standard so it's optionally like a web app, but ditch bleepin' DOM and JS. Oracle Forms was a kind of GUI browser in which one could run gazillion Oracle apps up-to-date without installing anything except the one "browser" (client). Oracle Forms had (fixable) weak-points, but as a proof of concept of a "GUI browser" it did CRUD perfectly fine for small and niche apps. Ugly, sure, but ugly that worked! (Oracle screwed it up when they rewrote the client from C to Java. Should have left it in C.)