[nbzso]

Browser as an app has its use case: Collaboration. I will never trust third party (SaaS) completely. Period.

I don't like Figma. I use it for remote work. And feel really uncomfortable, training some "automation" behind the scenes is always a reality. In my view for the companies this is like free petrol. We all work for them and pay monthly and devalue our work by the hour.

Intellectual ownership. Security. If you are professional the idea of not owning a computer is nonsense.

Its obvious that someone is getting "big VC funding" to bring browser as a replacement of computer OS. It will not work. Hopefully.

Those who don't understand the idea of freedom and personal computing didn't know the history. We live in the past. Not in the future.

Encryption and personal computing are pillars of democracy. Using one use case (collaboration) as universal reason for moving everything in the browser is not the way forward.

[atoav]

If one would be cynical about it, one could say that companies see this a bit like: "Learn that one weird trick to create a monopoly" — a strategy which of course boils down to money in the end.

Giving people software thattheycan use on their own machines is not without problems (e.g. updates, incompatibilities, ...), but ultimately it is the more logical solution. If you buy a hammer you expect it to work as long as you don't burn your toolshed. You don't expect it to change shape while you are using it, you don't expect it not to stop working once the manufacturer decides to give up on the design or once they go bust. Change being in your hands instead of the manufacturers is a feature, not a bug.

[nbzso]

Thats one of the reasons why I am quitting Figma. I like native app feeling and the "revolutionary" idea that my files are on my own computer. I don't use "templates", I don't follow design "trends" and I like to build real code based prototypes. For my big surprise Adobe XD is even cheaper.