@analog_cafe I do some work for a client who buys into every single bit of business tech possible - Google Cloud, Monday.com, Canva, etc.
None of them run as quickly or efficiently as basic .rtfs, emails, and so on. Even Photoshop is faster and smoother than Canva, for god's sake - and new versions of Photoshop aren't exactly efficient!
There's been such a push towards "the cloud", AI integration, beautiful UX, and all this fancy tech bro bullshit, but actual *performance* has really suffered.
@coldkennels Yes, there are some performance bottlenecks on web apps, for sure. It's hard to be a technologist and navigate the hype because it can definitely lead astray. I'm lazy and cynical, which has paid off so far lol
@analog_cafe I think another part of my concern is that a lot of things that are being presented as a good idea (like web apps) end up benefitting companies more than the end user.
Take, for instance, the rhetoric around Apple restricting what websites can do on iOS; this is very much a Good Thing. I bought into iOS precisely because I don't want random websites having access to the operating system, and it's no surprise companies like Google are criticising Apple for this position.
@coldkennels In some cases, yes. I benefit from saving a lot of time building a single app for the open web rather than dealing with multiple languages, frameworks, and walled gardens within native app stores. In some cases, this may be detrimental to usability.
But web apps can also be easier to secure (they show requests and are easy to sandbox; native apps do almost anything on your machine opaquely), they don't need gigabytes of space, and they are theoretically compatible with all devices.
