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GenPop thinks native means an app one can download and run, with tight integration with OS services. Not things like native WM, or os supplied libs/tooling. N
by djbusby 3y ago
GenPop thinks native means an app one can download and run, with tight integration with OS services.
Not things like native WM, or os supplied libs/tooling.
Native describes the user-feeling, not the developer-technology-analysis.
- oli-g 3y agoIf I can download and install Discord on my PC, I would describe it as a "desktop app". We have the desktop, we have mobile, and we have the web. The word "native" shouldn't even be in a user's vocabulary. And I believe it wasn't until Electron polluted the world with inefficient wrappers around a Chrome tab with a custom icon slapped on top. Once we were living that nightmare, developers of apps aimed at power users, who actually bothered to create a good experience, started differentiating themselves by offering "native apps", as in, "we actually coded an app for your OS". And as the time went by, the Electron web app resellers adopted the term as well.