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> It's nice to have things all basically browser based as it gives the developer more control of the product and creates a single reasonable platform.

I get that. But as a user, I really hate browser-based applications and avoid them entirely unless I have no other option.

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Apps that are just a web app inside an app container are even worse though!

What do you prefer? Native apps?

Yes. Although this depends a lot on the quality of the software, native apps tend to be much better in terms of UI and performance, and they tend to use less system resources -- sometimes a lot less.

Nowadays i would argue that the css rendering speed is faster than the Android UI renderer which suffers from extreme complexity. Ios might be still faster, but also much more limited. A good SPA is indistinguishable from a native app.

> A good SPA is indistinguishable from a native app.

Exactly. It’s like CGI in movies. People always talk about how bad CGI is, without realizing just how much good CGI they never notice.

https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24

That's possibly true, but I wasn't really talking about Android (native Android apps are pretty inefficient anyway), I was talking about desktop.

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