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Web apps are worse experience for the user, cost more to develop, and are more complex and difficult to operate and support, besides being resource pigs.

The only reason web apps are popular is portability. If it were easy to make one native app that ran on every computer, there would be a stampede toward it and a loud sucking sound from the vacuum of apps leaving the web. Java is a travesty and there's nothing else that's popular enough to sway an entire industry.

Web apps are shitty thin clients.




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