[kaishin]

I don’t see Apple going the route of bundling Chromium. Catalyst does allow porting iOS apps to macOS but it’s been not great so far.

I think there will always be a category of people who prefer using native apps for performance, security, or access to OS features. Anecdotally I looked at the apps I have installed and I found out that I don’t have many electron apps on my Mac beside chat apps and VS Code. I suspect non tech-savvy people might have even less, since they do a lot more inside their browsers compared to before.

I’m not sure what you refer to when you say “native desktop apps aren’t coming back”, given that they never left t begin with.

[divbzero]

It doesn’t have to be Chromium. It just needs to be a browser that can be linked and launched as an app.

[layoutIfNeeded]

It’s called a “web view” and it already exists in all of the platforms.

[zelly]

WebView is Chromium on Windows now. The holdout is Apple. They are not known to capitulate to industry trends. Maybe this will be the first one they are forced into by popular demand.

[throwaway810]

Good thing the web is still based on open standards instead of an (advertising) industry trend. We need more viable browser engines, not less.