Well that’s certainly one uncharitable way to read that.
People have spoken with their usage. They aren’t picking native apps, they are picking webapps. There isn’t some massive underserved “I wish this was a desktop app” market or someone would be making a killing there.
Desktop apps have their place but all things being equal people seems to gravitate towards webapps.
On HN people hate on Electron apps and webapps but they are the vast minority of the overall population and they rarely offer viable alternatives, just grumbling. What their arguments so often overlook is it’s not native vs electron/web it nothing vs electron/web, as in a lot of these products would simply not exist or would be windows/mac-only if not for webapps.
People have spoken with their usage. They aren’t picking native apps, they are picking webapps. There isn’t some massive underserved “I wish this was a desktop app” market or someone would be making a killing there.
Desktop apps have their place but all things being equal people seems to gravitate towards webapps.
On HN people hate on Electron apps and webapps but they are the vast minority of the overall population and they rarely offer viable alternatives, just grumbling. What their arguments so often overlook is it’s not native vs electron/web it nothing vs electron/web, as in a lot of these products would simply not exist or would be windows/mac-only if not for webapps.