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Doing more of what? As a user, I'd rather wait a month for a proper native app than get an electron pile of crap in a week.

While theres no way for me to have a source for this but I would hazard a guess and say most apps that use Electron simply would not exist without it. Maybe someone would fill the void if they had the idea, money and knowhow to build a native app on whatever platform you use but probably unlikely.

Basically, no way you'd just be waiting an extra month for your native version.

So let it be. If there's a niche waiting to be filled, there are bound to be multiple attempts at that. The world would've been a better place without electron.

The key issue is that you, if you are a typical customer, wouldn't pay for your share of that extra development.

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