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by noobquestion81 1950 days ago
This isn’t true either. If market share is your goal, just write 3 native apps. No, devs choose electron to speed up development of apps that need to be cross-platform. They only write one app instead of three. Faster dev cycle. In doing so, they aim for the middleground UX between all the platforms and end up with something that kinda sucks on each one. Its a tradeoff that is usually overlooked, and indeed is often sold later as “a unified look”, which doesn’t do anything for typical users that work within a single platform.