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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by ken on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:48AM (#23212380)
How do you have more "control over your software" with a web app? With a native app, I can do virtually anything. With a web app, I can really only do what (Google ∩ Apple ∩ Microsoft)'s web browser teams decided to prioritize, and allow, and optimize.

As for 'pirating', is that a serious concern these days? I've only ever heard about it being an issue at big companies selling software to other big companies, where it's solved with "license servers".

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by hellisothers on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:17PM (#23212943)
I think they mean rapid, continuous deployment. If it’s a web app you can push out changes every day to near universal adoption. With a native app you have to cajole users to update
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by ken on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:12PM (#23215969)
There are auto-updaters for desktop software, too.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by alexgmcm on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:02PM (#23213810)
Also on mobile you are constrained by the app store requirements as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by rohan1024 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:48PM (#23216239)
This is exactly what I meant.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by ZoomZoomZoom on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#23214891)
>> How do you have more "control over your software" with a web app?

It means they can break a program I'm using at any moment they wish, even after I paid for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by kandeel4411 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:09PM (#23216389)
I think pirating is a serious issue in other countries (i.e mine), I practically never saw anyone actually pay for any office suite, adobe software and some offline games. All of them get pirated and very quickly too.
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