Hacker News Reader

More accurately: Why I develop this specific class of applications for the desktop rather than the web. This is basically what the author is talking about despite the generalization regarding desktop apps; if he's going to stick with that he should have gone with "desktop" instead of "mac."

View on HN

You seem to have missed the whole "Features" section. Here's a list of what he said he gains "for free" by developing for Mac (of course, other environments might have similar stuff, but not exactly like OS X's): Undo/Redo with Core Data, PDF export (and "import" into current documents), Multi-touch zoom.

That's not even 10% of the article.

So? If that was enough to make a specific point, why should he use more words?

He was being very careful to not overstate his claims, or even to appear to be overstating his claims. Considering how people in forums typically respond, I understand why.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com