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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:13PM (#34701972)
> People prefer Electron because it gives them a consistent environment across operating systems

People don’t prefer an application that takes up more memory, drains battery life and that’s not consistent with their other apps. Developers may prefer it.

How many users are switching back and forth between Windows and Macs?

The same applies in the other direction. When I was a Windows user, I hated the iTunes interface because it felt like a bad Mac port. I was a former Mac (and current) Mac user so I could tell.

Even before that, the Windows QuickTime Player felt like a bad port.

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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by throwaway49496 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:21PM (#34702060)
If the users don't want an Electron app, they won't use it and the developers will feel the need to change their ways.

Software development is not just about the users. Many Electron apps are single dev ventures. It's not easy to maintain multiple different platform specific apps even for a large enterprise. The larger the app the more difficult it becomes.

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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:33PM (#34702188)
> Software development is not just about the users

And this says a lot about why people prefer commercial alternatives.

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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by palata on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:29PM (#34702851)
> they won't use it

Except for all those popular Electron apps with lock-in effects, like Discord and Slack.

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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by throwaway49496 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:58AM (#34706184)
Seems like the users think it's better to accept the performance degradation than to switch apps.
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Re:Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren'... by palata on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:51AM (#34722599)
Does it? My feeling is that users use whatever you give them. And then they buy a new device because theirs is "becoming slow". They don't say "wait, Slack is just a glorified IRC, it should work on my iPhone from 2008, I will just refuse to use it" because they need it.

There are no alternatives to the Slack ElectronJS Desktop app. That's the whole point: they don't want to maintain native apps. And they don't open their API to let others do it, I guess because that may hurt their lock-in benefits.

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