>What is the argument here?

it's an incredible waste of resources, especially at high resolutions, to redraw a Gui application like you would a videogame

You only redraw when there’s interaction. In exchange you use basically no memory for state retention which frees up the real resource constraint.

Redrawing the whole thing consumes resources. That's power and resources not available to other tasks. There is value in being clever with what you draw.

> Basically every device has a GPU.

Many VMs and remote desktops don't. (Or can't really make use of)

This is an app that connects to your phone and sends messages via the app. I don't think it's that crazy to decide that running on a VM or remote desktop is out of scope.

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