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by wastholm 1739 days ago
> mobile web browsers provide a worse experience compared to native applications, unlike Electron or Chrome on Desktop that provides a much better experience in general

Electron apps are perhaps faster and cheaper to make than native desktop GUI apps for most organizations because they already have Web developers, but I've never heard anyone claim they're "better" than native, if that's what you're saying. Do you mean they're somehow better for the end user? If so, how?
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dannyw 1739 days ago
Better compatibility. I have a machine that still runs Windows 7; and electron apps rarely have issues. Many native apps no longer work on my OS.
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blub 1739 days ago
Malware's backwards compatible with Windows 7. In fact it gets better and better the more time passes.
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speedgoose 1739 days ago
Yes I was more thinking about development. Faster and cheaper development is the key. Development teams can focus more on the user experience and the features.

You also get a good application on all platforms, GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac which is nice and used to not be the case.

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