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Strictly fwiw - There is a subset of people, myself included, who have old fashioned preference for native apps. In particular, a few likely obsolete perspectiv
by NikolaNovak 3y ago
Strictly fwiw - There is a subset of people, myself included, who have old fashioned preference for native apps. In particular, a few likely obsolete perspectives :
1. I can have more ownership of the native app. I can make a copy on my NAS and install as needed
2. I can have more control over what it does. I can deny the firewall and whatever it does it'll do only locally.
3. Native app feels more "once and done". Web app feels more SaaSy. And many of us are getting allergic to everything under the sun wanting five bucks a months for 2 min of use.
For such people as myself, native installer isn't a point of friction, it's an inherent advantage.
Of course there are counterarguments! Native app can have a activation requirement or internet requirement and can do horrible things directly on my file system. Just offering a glimpse of alternate perspectives fwiw :-)
- philote 3y agoI'm curious, what native apps that are also available a web app do you store an offline copy of on your NAS? And which do you deny access to in your firewall?
- resonious 3y agoThis is totally good. But I do wonder how much these points apply to a native app generated from a website using the tool in the link. I get the feeling it will still be very SaaSy (a la Slack's "native app").