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But Google Earth was a terrible app with inconsistent UI! To my mind it’s one of the posterchildren of why making crossplatform native apps often ends up a total mess.

I feel like when everyone says “this should be a native app” their imagined app is absolutely flawless and integrates seamlessly on every OS. But reality has rarely matched that ideal.

[tjoff]

It was still orders of magnitude better than the web version so not sure what the argument is?

Today I'd use applications such as Slack and Spotify as posterchilds for bad applications. That they are built with web tech is not a coincidence.