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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:22PM (#23162743)
Microsoft and Adobe update their apps quite frequently -- for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. I gladly pay $100 a year for O365.

What are some well done cross platform apps that don't unnecessarily drain battery life? I can think of one - VSCode.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by diss on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:39PM (#23162861)
Huge companies, yes. They'd still prefer to spend less money/resource/time if they have the option to though, hence why some large companies actively explore cross platform technology. Adobe did that with phonegap a long time ago.

You're talking about Electron there, which like phonegap is a browser wrapper and a different thing to RN. I don't believe RN is known to be a battery drain in general.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:02PM (#23162994)
How well did PhoneGap work out?
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by diss on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:17PM (#23163104)
Badly, which is why we have a totally different approach in the form of RN, Flutter etc. The concept of cross platform support wasn't the problem, that's what we're chasing for a reason.
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