[dman]

Killing battery life of their users isnt a business reason?

[rhinoceraptor]

All enterprise desktop software is trash. Everyone has to put up with terrible AV, terrible VPN clients, terrible VOIP/video conferencing, etc. There's no incentive to make good software for your users when your users don't have a choice.

[arvinsim]

If doesn't affect their bottomline, then why will they bother?

[dman]

Customers are fickle beasts, they mutter and keep on using a product until they dont.

[raydev]

Sure, but it'll ultimately be because of a hot new UX or feature that Slack didn't think of, not battery life.

[gruez]

yet there's no slack competitor that has "better battery life" or "native apps" as one of its selling points.

[cyphar]

Matrix has native clients[1], as well as a weechat plugin.

[1]: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quaternion.html

[salvar]

So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?

[dman]

Nokia had users who were happy with the solid phones they were building.

[salvar]

So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?