A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by oblio on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:23AM (#36984866)

Blame the OS vendors (Microsoft has 70% of the blame, Apple 25% and even Linux distro share a 5% amongst themselves).

They killed[1] cross platform apps and they made software updates hard, so everyone just flocked to the web.

[1] Not through a single blow, death by a million cuts.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by mrguyorama on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:55PM (#36989318)

>They killed[1] cross platform apps

No they didn't! Extremely lazy devs deciding that they should just be able to deploy javascript and html anywhere and using Electron "killed" native apps. Why would anyone ever invest even 1% more into a native app when you can just hire intern javascript kiddies, pay them terribly, oversee them with one or two expensive javascript bros, and all your users will blame the slowdown on the operating system and Microsoft as they always have?

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by oblio on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:10PM (#36989524)

Native apps cost far more than just 1% over web apps.

I'd argue each native version costs about as much as an web app.

The real shame was Gtk and Qt not getting the support they deserve.

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