Good and bad applications

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date: 2020-12-18 20:41:51

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firstPublishDate: 2020-12-18 20:41:51

Nowadays lots of apps are simply web apps written in javascript, some advantages are:

easy to install, just open the url in a browser

looks good

always latest version

Some drawbacks are:

closed source

inefficient, they use a lot of resources

data is not local, in general it is saved online

updates in the user interface just happen, there is no way to keep a specific user interface

Today I was looking for Automatic replies in Office365, I didn't find it easily since the UI changed since January the last time I used Office365.

I prefer native apps because:

users have more control (the user decides when to update)

they are efficient and can process a lot of data

they use little resources

the data is local, I can search my mail in mutt or thunderbird faster than in gmail

always available since they are installed locally

Gmail was not working for about 1 hour last week because some google authentication service had problems.

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