Apple Silicon Mac Is About to Kill Web Apps

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Post by nimeshneema » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:12 PM UTC

Apple Silicon Mac Is About to Kill Web Apps
medium.com

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Post by hankchinaski » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

>The new M1 chip unifies Apple’s ecosystem and marks the end of Electron-based mac apps

the end of Electron-based mac apps for good!

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Post by griffindorite » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

The Slack Mac App certainly consumes a lot of memory. Hopefully the iOS app addresses those issues.

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Post by devnerd239 » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:44 PM UTC

Does this support all iOS apps? Like Instagram? If so, do we need a separate software to run them or is it directly downloadable from the Mac App Store?

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Post by pcdoodle » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

This title sucks.

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Post by mytailorisrich » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:01 PM UTC

I wouldn't call an iOS app built with Electron a "web app". The title is quite misleading.

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Post by pdpi » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:07 PM UTC

This is a frankly ridiculous take and completely misunderstands what makes Electron attractive.

There are no "Electron-based Mac apps", because nobody is targeting the Mac specifically with those apps. What we do have is web-first apps that use Electron to provide a desktop experience (like Slack), and desktop-first apps that use Electron as a multi-platform runtime (like VS Code).

The first group tends to have webview-based "native" apps and running those on the Mac wouldn't realise any of the expected advantages of a native app. The latter group won't have any sort of native iOS app to begin with. At any rate, neither of those groups is likely to migrate to native apps because of this move.

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Post by tecnocriollo » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

Electron could run on Windows and Mac. If Apple promised better performance from M1 chips... Why I'd want to create an optimized native version?

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Post by swiley » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

Quite the opposite, it will kill electron apps which no one likes.

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Post by griffindorite » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

swiley wrote: post #9

Quite the opposite, it will kill electron apps which no one likes.

Isn't that what the author is saying as well? That Electron apps are memory hungry and eat battery