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Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by lagadu on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:48AM (#20122484)
Yes it is. Whenever you open a common app whose interface is janky, uses a ton of memory, doesn't load all views as instantly as you expect a desktop app to and needs to frequently refresh itself you know you're using electron. Think slack and spotify, the article doesn't mention it but I'm sure Tidal is too because it behaves in exactly the same way.
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Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by octabyte on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:01AM (#20122549)
I don’t understand how billion dollar companies can’t pony up for a few native app devs lol
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Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by LeoNatan25 on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:54AM (#20122799)
The absurd is that lone developers (or small teams) manage to out do in quality apps from large companies. Nowadays, most software by a large company is terrible, even if native. Take a look at Apple's software going downhill, Microsoft software going downhill, etc.
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Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by ymolodtsov on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:40AM (#20123939)
Because it’s much faster and easier to deploy new features when you have one app for three platforms. They’d be crazy to spend resources on native apps for those.
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