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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by mike_hearn on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:11PM (#9606959)
Yeah? Spotify, Skype, Google Earth, any developer tool, iTunes, Sonos, Keynote, MS Office, Photoshop, any video game ..... there are plenty of popular native desktop apps out there. I'd say there'd be more too, if the industry made them more frequently. But all we churn out are web apps these days - not because that's what users demand but for all sorts of other reasons.
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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by _joev on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:52PM (#9607213)
"Native desktop" spotify is just a web app wrapped into an embedded Chromium browser.
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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by flurp on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:42PM (#9609026)
"just" a browser with a lot of native technology baked in to enhance the experience. Playlist caching for one.
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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by fineline on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:10PM (#9609116)
localStorage.getItem("myPlaylist")

I'm not saying that's what they use, it could be WebSQL, IndexedDB, FileAPI - local data storage is built into your browser.

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