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by hulitu 1700 days ago
Web is not winning. It is forced down your throath. Google "apps" are terrible. My former employer tried to use them but stayed with MS Office. Office PWAs are horrible. If 365 is a PWA why does an xlsx openned in sharepoint a different look (no ribbon, other fonts) than an xlsx opened in Excel 365 ? And MS Teams looks like an incompleted CS assignment for a first year college student.
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15 years ago I used exactly zero web apps in my daily work and life. Today I use exclusively web/electron/react native apps: VSCode, Slack, Google Docs (which I’m perfectly happy with), GitHub, Figma, Miro, etc. And my retired mum also uses web apps while she used none 15years ago: Facebook, Facebook Mobile, Gmail, etc. And clearly these cases are representative of a large part of the population, judging by the revenue of companies with Web tech based UIs. So yes, web tech is winning.