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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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