Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
by Multicomp on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:59PM
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> But now in mobile, we are returning to the clinet software first approach. And for some reason we resist the installation of client software and prefer browser based functionality.
IMO for any given program or 'app' today, the better it functions offline directly correlates with the desire I have to use it natively on a given platform, as opposed to web access.
Slack is just about useless offline, hence my strong preference to use it in the browser.
Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
by marcosdumay on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:30AM
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Back in the 1990's you installed those applications when you wanted, upgraded them when you wanted, moved whatever data you wanted between them and in and out of the computer as you wished. Also, you were pretty certain those applications were not spying on you.
You can reverse each of those statements for a current mobile app.
Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:14PM
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The height of the desktop era was before surveillance capitalism was a thing. With web came the on-line ads, which, being a cancer[0], infected the business models of increasing amount of software. Then the mobile exploded, and the new breed of native software - apps - were designed to be user-hostile pretty much from the start, and continue to be so.
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[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
Back in the late 1990s I used to have all sorts of software in my computer which I downloaded and installed. Some of it was purchased and other free or open source.
As the time passed, more and more services became "web based" including mail, music, calendar, note taking, etc.
I was part of a small group that did not like that. My reasoning was that there was no need to hack all that functionality in the web browser as it was highly inefficient. That it was better to code the network features into the desktop clients.
Web caught on and nowadays seldomly you get a client program in the desktop.
But now in mobile, we are returning to the clinet software first approach. And for some reason we resist the installation of client software and prefer browser based functionality.