> I don't know who invented that "As a user" thing, but I find it completely stupid. In my view it is just used as a justification for anything one wants when they don't have a better argument.
> "As a user", I want to own the product I pay for.
Ironically, you're the one who lacks a concrete argument, which is why you're attacking the wording of my statement, rather than the substance of it. You're honing in on the first three words of my sentence, because you can't debate the argument on its merits. You then use the exact same wording in your final sentence, but encase it in quotes as if that somehow absolves you of your hypocrisy. Given that this website is frequented by software developers, I think there's a useful distinction to be made between thinking about problems in terms of their development, versus thinking about them in terms of their utility to end users.
> Not at all, I was just giving a real-world example of sandboxing of apps at scale.
It would be charitable of me to call it a "real-word example". You simply said "Android does that sandboxing by default", without a single supporting statement or example, despite your so-called extensive knowledge of sandboxing.
> If your baseline is sending a full web browser with every app you make, on desktop you could run each app in a VM and it would obviously be better.
No one is "sending a full web browser with every app you make". Browsers come preinstalled on every popular operating system.
> An app can't make a request unless it has the internet permission, what's your point?
What in the world is "the internet permission"? I've never had an operating system ask me if I'd like to grant an app "the internet permission". Have you operated a computer before?
> Do you know anything about sandboxing, or are you throwing that there for the sake of the argument?
> Oh right, I guess you don't really know about sandboxing then. So it won't be a super constructive debate given that your position is apparently fundamentally based on your intuition about sandboxing.
As someone who's written both web apps and desktop apps, I do in fact know a considerable amount about sandboxing. Do you know anything about sandboxing? You're questioning my knowledge to deflect from your lack of a coherent rebuttal. What exactly have you written during this conversation to demonstrate your comprehensive knowledge of sandboxing? You're concluding that I lack knowledge on sandboxing because I admitted to not having single-handedly written an operating system or web browser? Really? Are you writing an OS in your free time when you're not writing about the mysterious "internet permission"?
> My point is that webapps move everything into the browser, going towards a world where something like ChromeOS is the only valid way to use a computer. I want to choose my OS, I don't want to rent an OS provided by BigTech
You've got it backwards. If I want to add support for users running a free open-source operating system like Linux, as a web app developer I don't have to do anything special. Linux can run web browsers, and therefore it can run web apps. Case in point is Photoshop. Neither Photoshop nor the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite runs on Linux, but the Photoshop web app does, because web apps are universal. There's a reason why Apple took years to finally add push notification support to iOS web apps, because web apps threaten the mobile operating system duopoly.