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Is there any reason for desktop apps anymore?
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#12Unlike all the soft suburban dwelling people, some of us realize there is a real world where things go wrong, and being able to still use your computer for critical things can be a life saver. Just ask the military, even if you SIPRNET is down you still want to pull up imagery, print out maps and plan your mission to go kill the guys who made our power fail.
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#13Why is it that everything I read in this blog pisses me off? Yes. Of course there is. We aren't nearly at the point yet where the Internet works as quickly as hardware. We don't have a world with wonderful connections everywhere. Desktop apps are leagues faster in every regard. And I'd say we need a long time before that'll be fixed. Plus, once you work inside a web browser, you don't just have the layer abstraction,…
Quite a lot of people just run webapps in prism etc these days, so they pretty much look like desktop apps.
Nah, sorry. Not the came. The mere existence of a shell means you've got more interface than is actually necessary.
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#15I basically agree with the author, because:
1) as he says, with slightly faster computers, for more and more applications the speed will not be an issue. 2) Internet connection will be more common in the future (my prediction) 3) Even if you don't have Internet connection temporarily, you can work offline (google gears technology) and sync when you connect.
The advantages are: 1) Your data are online, so accessible from any computer without additional work. 2) The software itself is online, no need to install/maintain it.
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#16You're kidding, right?
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#17You're kidding, right?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, sorry. Not the came. The mere existence of a shell means you've got more interface than is actually necessary.
A shell? I don't follow.
With a desktop app, the windows of the app is part of the interface. With any SSB, the window just takes away screen space.