Re:Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that ...
by embedding-shape on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:26AM
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> numbers-driven development has been a huge issue for a long time now
Ever since UX and UIs started to be driven mainly by metrics and numbers, I felt something started going wrong already. Since then (the decades...), I've learned about "McNamara fallacy" which seems to perfectly fit a lot of "modern" software engineering and product management today:
> The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy) [...] involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven.
Re:Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that ...
by Ntrails on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:45AM
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I occasionally use whatsapp or discord webapps, but won't install the apps. I don't know for sure which sandboxes the processes more effectively, but I kinda assume the browser is my better bet for protecting myself from crap.
Happy to learn otherwise, but might be a datapoint on user behaviour (which could also drive corporate choices).
And from a manager's point of view it seems wasteful to develop the same feature across multiple platforms. And if you look at the numbers it does, but numbers-driven development has been a huge issue for a long time now. They don't consider performance or memory usage a factor, and perceived performance is "good enough" for a web app.