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Desktop apps can reach higher quality. Compare e.g. Apple Keynote to Google Slides, the difference is obvious.

Ha. Wanted to counter your argument with: Keynote is older. It is, but just by 3 years, (2003 vs 2006).

Depending on the features you use your argument might fall flat though, how do I collaborate on a presentation? How can I easily share a presentation with a set of folks?

I like Keynote a lot, but Slides has it’s use cases as well.

Keynote actually has pretty great real-time collaboration [1], though it does have more friction than GSlides, not least of which because it requires a Mac.

I agree GSlides has its uses. Web apps are good for ephemeral tasks, but I use desktop apps for stuff I care about.

1: https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...

> Keynote is older. It is, but just by 3 years, (2003 vs 2006).

Fun fact: 2003 was Keynote's public unveiling. Before that, it was a bespoke NeXTSTEP app created for Steve Jobs. (I'm not sure how old proto-Keynote is, but IIRC he'd used it publicly since the late 90s.)

More here: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Keynote

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