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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by thrower123 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:41AM (#28467951)
Yes. I would argue that it is precisely the obsession with cross-platform that has destroyed native desktop applications. If all you are offering with your native desktop framework is a dumbed-down experience, because it has to also run on tablets and phones and TVs and game consoles and smart refrigerators, then you quickly get to a place where there are few advantages in going native over shipping a webapp in a Chrome wrapper.

Windows 8 was a catastrophic failure, and Apple seems to be leaning into the same failed philosophy now.

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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by sally1620 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:30PM (#28507256)
It is not really "obsession", it is economics. There is a high cost with maintaining different apps for different platforms.
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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by spaetzleesser on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:44PM (#28471693)
“and Apple seems to be leaning into the same failed philosophy now.”

I agree but when you look at their profits it seems MS and Apple are doing the right thing even if I don’t like it as a developer.

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