Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
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#2I have just rediscovered the fantastic FreePascal/Lazarus, and have been thinking up desktop app projects to build. Cross-compile to Windows, Linux and OSX with native UI.
Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#3Bad article title. Doesn't even attempt to show a statistical trend that they're 'coming back' (I would argue with the existence of app stores and the like that they never really left). Does talk about the authors experience of offering a desktop app which is very interesting.
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Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#5Bad article title. Doesn't even attempt to show a statistical trend that they're 'coming back' (I would argue with the existence of app stores and the like that they never really left). Does talk about the authors experience of offering a desktop app which is very interesting.
Was thinking the same. Even when ajax was getting big, i still recall using a lot of the same programs i did then. A text editor/ide, a browser, desktop games, ms word, etc.
Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#6Bad article title. Doesn't even attempt to show a statistical trend that they're 'coming back' (I would argue with the existence of app stores and the like that they never really left). Does talk about the authors experience of offering a desktop app which is very interesting.
Ok, we changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.
Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#7I've been using slack just fine in the browser, haven't had much of a need for a desktop version of it.
I can just make a separate chrome instance for it and move it into its own xmonad workspace and switch to it much more conveniently than through alt-tab.
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#8> At Front for example, people using the desktop app spend on average 34% more time on the app that those using the web version.
...maybe I'm crazy, but the primary metric I would evaluate a tool designed to increase business productivity is not how much time I spend using it, and in fact would normally be summarized as the exact opposite of this metric...
Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#9Installable webapps cover at least the first two points.
Re: Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
#10> At Front for example, people using the desktop app spend on average 34% more time on the app that those using the web version. ...maybe I'm crazy, but the primary metric I would evaluate a tool designed to increase business productivity is not how much time I spend using it, and in fact would normally be summarized as the exact opposite of this metric...
Also, correlation/causation.
It could be that the people who download the desktop app are already the heavy users.