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mtgx mentioned this on the earlier thread, and I'm curious to know too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585597):

Have they said what are their long-term plans for the desktop app, now that Google has started deprecating Chrome apps?

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...

I haven't seen anyone from Open Whisper Systems speak out about this.

One of the things they like best about the current/deprecated Chrome app is the distribution and update model. I'm not sure how much that will affect their decisions about what direction to take.

Fingers crossed they go with a saner native option like QT rather than a slow, crappy, wrapped web app.

Or platform specific versions using native tooling, sharing only what can be shared under the hood, and ending up with great apps?

Yeah, what am I thinking? I know that will probably will never happen, but it would be awesome if it did...

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