<story><title>Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application</title><url>https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/why-desktop-apps-are-making-a-comeback-5b4eb0427647</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t like is WebView distributed as a &amp;quot;native app&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s not native app and it&amp;#x27;s not something I want to install, don&amp;#x27;t cheat me. Webpages should stay in browser.&lt;p&gt;I expect native app to be written with Objective C (OS X&amp;#x2F;iOS user here), having very low memory usage, fast startup and offline usage. Also I expect as much integration with the system, as possible, native controls (not that buggy emulation without my favorite emacs-like keybindings) and native behavior.&lt;p&gt;Probably we miss an important piece of technology: installable web-apps. Website opened in the frameless browser window, identifiable as a different application which could be easily pinned to Launchpad. With all advantages that &amp;quot;separate webview&amp;quot; has, but with some important difference: sandboxing. So I can feel safe when I launch this application, because I don&amp;#x27;t need to trust all my files, passwords and system to another application. I&amp;#x27;ve seen that kind of technology in the iOS: website bookmark could be pinned as a desktop icon, but it&amp;#x27;s just a bookmark.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application</title><url>https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/why-desktop-apps-are-making-a-comeback-5b4eb0427647</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>&amp;gt; At Front for example, people using the desktop app spend on average 34% more time on the app that those using the web version.&lt;p&gt;...maybe I&amp;#x27;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...</text></comment>