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Re:Goodbye, Native Apps by emodendroket on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:11PM (#24956751)
The fact you can just run it without installing anything makes up for a lot of faults (doubly so when the vendor isn't Microsoft but somebody nobody's ever heard of).
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Re:Goodbye, Native Apps by wtallis on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:43AM (#24957460)
On the flip side, most web apps don't offer their full feature set without requiring you to go through a sign-up process that is at least as onerous as downloading and unzipping a Mac app bundle. Even when a web app outsources authentication to something like Facebook, there are still at least as many clicks.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Apps by emodendroket on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:48AM (#24957471)
It's not about clicks so much as sandboxing.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Apps by pseudalopex on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:14AM (#24957557)
Mac apps are sandboxed.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Apps by emodendroket on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:18AM (#24959616)
I'd nevertheless sooner visit an unknown Web site than install an unknown application.
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