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by sally1620 1739 days ago
This approach works, and the user experience may be great. But it is very costly to build, and very costly to maintain. Compared to Electron, you need a few Javascript devs to spin up an app that runs on every major operating system AND in browser.

I think economics is the real reason they won. And Google pumped a lot of money in this space, too.