Perhaps a gateway to run computer use locally?
Claude for Desktop
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#13An Electron app is anything but fast.
It can be faster than a normal web page depending on how they configure it though.
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#14can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.
but this can start with Windows and sit in your system tray, sending you popup reminders!
We're 2-3 sprints away from a claude popup saying "It looks like you're writing a resume, would you like help with that?"
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.
I think it’s less about not knowing what a bookmark is and more about just having a more direct way to access it, where it’s more high-level than just in a tab. There’s just something mentally different about opening a program from your dock as opposed to from a tab, even if they’re both basically a website.
This line of reasoning was why I was hopeful that PWAs on the desktop would become first-class citizens, as far back as Mozilla Prism[1] in the late 2000s. They never really did seem to take off.
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#16can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.
Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.
I have ChatGPT app and Claude and Gemini PWAs on my dock. I gravitate towards using ChatGPT much more. It's just faster vs launching Chromium for each small query.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
but this can start with Windows and sit in your system tray, sending you popup reminders!
We're 2-3 sprints away from a claude popup saying "It looks like you're writing a resume, would you like help with that?"
A Copilot version is probably slated for 2025H1.
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#18can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.
Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.
I like to ALT-TAB instead of CTRL-TAB because I always have fewer applications open than I do sites. I don't have dozens and dozens of tabs always open either, but always more than my programs.
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#19can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.
Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.
I'm not a kid and I know about bookmarks, but I prefer using apps to apps in my browser. Electron apps I have less interest in, but I really don't like working in something like Figma (which is in the top of it's class) in the browser.
In-browser apps do all sorts of clunky things like going back a page because I'm trying to scroll right or left or hotkeys not working. Native apps feel so much better to use and I can close my browser and stay focused on the task.
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#20They add the same Option+Space (on macOS) shortcut that ChatGPT has, but the app feels a bit like a quick build overall, as it's just a web container. Hopefully they'll add some nice features that wouldn't work in a browser such as asking about what's on your screen or a shortcut to be able to speak questions and get a voice response.