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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by kyralis on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:39PM (#43248207)
It basically is an Electron app; most of the UI is server-driven. It's just not HTML and js.

News, Books, and TV are all similar.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by hnthrowaway0315 on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:54PM (#43248339)
Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by webdever on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:35PM (#43248655)
It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based)

So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by hnthrowaway0315 on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:54PM (#43248822)
Thanks. MSFT at least is using C# though.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by saagarjha on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:37AM (#43251997)
It's not a web view except for some of the account-related screens.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by jeffhuys on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @05:18AM (#43252761)
Do you have a source for that? Because that's news to me...
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by kyralis on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:22AM (#43250654)
It's not actually Electron; it's a bit of an unholy mishmash of webkit doing layout of things that are sometimes native views with interaction handling that's also a bit of both. It just has many of the same problems that that Electron apps have, which is also why the interactions are so janky.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by trinix912 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:02AM (#43251694)
So it’s like those late 90s ActiveX IE iframes in Windows programs all over again? That sucks. iTunes did seem to have some of it too in the Store section.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by seec on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:12AM (#43299578)
Yep and they all suck. The hardware is nice but why do you pay so much to run shitty software that does not even focus on local stuff? If I want some cloud stuff, Google is cheaper...

It's like buying a car because it looks very nice and has a great engine but the driving experience is absolutely terrible.

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