Re:The Decline of the MacBook Pro
by npunt on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:49PM
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Mail, Calendar, Keynote, Contacts, Photos, Notes, Reminders, Pages, and Numbers are web enabled. Go to iCloud.com. You can legit edit and collaborate in Keynote/Pages/Numbers on the web, and in some ways is superior to G suite apps (especially Google Slides).
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If the web app is good enough, then the desktop versions shouldn't exist and thus shouldn't be installed. They end up being "bloat" either way.
Re:The Decline of the MacBook Pro
by IOT_Apprentice on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:04PM
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Ah so you are an electron fan eh? Web apps "good enough" eliminate desktop apps? <eyeroll>
My point is that if Apple's webapps are good enough to serve as the only interface to e.g. your documents on other platforms, they should also be good enough for MacOS. I don't personally believe that they are good enough for that but you can't have it both ways: Either Apple doesn't support other platforms well enough for their ecosystem to be a good choice for a multi-platform user or else their web apps are good enough that they don't need corresponding desktop apps.
To directly address your question, though, I am a fan of so-called progressive webapps and very much not a fan of electron.