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A comment on Ask HN: Which is better, a desktop or web application?.

Re:Ask HN: Which is better, a desktop or web application? by ArnieSaknussen on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:00PM (#25316658)
Look at the history of how Facebook dropped their mobile web application in favor of a native iOS application. In the process of doing that, they also invented GraphQL as a replacement for REST API.

Purely anecdotal reasoning, but it’s worth mentioning I think.

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Re:Ask HN: Which is better, a desktop or web application? by brittpart_ on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#25316996)
Facebook was first a reputable web application.
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