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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by devmunchies on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:22PM (#14090244)
> Nobody in the last ~20 years has cared about writing Web apps before JS came along. There's basically zero money in it

Zero money in web apps? You mean like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitch, Netflix, and YouTube?

There's way more money is web apps than desktop apps. hands down. I'm not talking about mobile because this is a convo about electron.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by wvenable on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:34PM (#14093141)
Desktop apps like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop? I too can pick a few ridiculous outliers. Honestly I'm not sure if you're right or wrong but either way that argument isn't good.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by devmunchies on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:13PM (#14094004)
> I too can pick a few ridiculous outliers

Those examples aren't event good, though. They all seems to be becoming less popular these days.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by EduardoBautista on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:35PM (#14094277)
Let me know what web apps are better than the desktop apps that were mentioned. They are just as popular as they have ever been.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by devmunchies on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:55PM (#14099495)
> They are just as popular as they have ever been

This can't be true seeing as Google Docs is used by many companies and students.

And "better" may not be the goal of many web apps. They may be trying to measure success by "convenience" rather than being objectively "better".

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