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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by evilos on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:01AM (#28466779)
Visual effects artists and embedded programmers are very niche communities (former embedded SW engineer here). Probably something like 90% of people just need a browser 90% of the time. It's kind of a no brainer from a business point of view. If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor.
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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by nineteen999 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:18AM (#28467168)
> If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be.

We can choose to disagree on this point, however...

>> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app

It is a long way from the parent's comment (above) to "if your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be".

Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but that doesn't contradict my point that the parent is incorrect in that "everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app". You're arguing a different thing.

There are plenty of apps, as I described above, that don't have functional web-based equivalents, and probably will not for a very long time to come. There are enough niche industries with such requirements that combined, they will act as a counterweight to the push for everything to run as a web app for quite some time.

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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by blub on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:21AM (#28467844)
"If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor"

This right here is the reason there are many browser-based apps - it's really convenient for the company, damn the users. The company can do whatever they want, whenever they want and have full access to both telemetry and user data.

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