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Am I crazy for thinking they should release a tool that does this offline and then just end support for it after those dates?
by ShamelessC 3y ago
Am I crazy for thinking they should release a tool that does this offline and then just end support for it after those dates?
- codyogden 3y agoNope. It's something I suggested the other day: https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/1735913152662196468 https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/173591315266219646...
- londons_explore 3y agoThe webpage is pretty much self-contained... You could probably just save the page for offline use in your browser and have it work forever.
- Grazester 3y agoSomeone already did this and posted it on GitHub about a year now
- throwuxiytayq 3y agoPeople who suggest this fail to understand that to a google-brained PM it would be a complete and utter career-destroying faux pas to suggest that they should make a non-web app, even for a purpose as trivial as a firmware upgrade.
- Kwpolska 3y agoDoing it via the browser means they get support for Linux out-of-the-box. If this was a long-term thing, they wouldn’t need to care about things like Apple switching architectures for the umpteenth time.
- nyanpasu64 3y agoBring back the Windows Google Talk client...
- dvngnt_ 3y agoyes! that's not the "google way"
- ShamelessC 3y agoAhh you’re right. Don’t know what I was thinking.