[ReactiveJelly]

People ask why everything is web apps and there's the answer - It's a layer of sandboxing that users have _at least some_ control over.

[jtbayly]

I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.

[jrajav]

It's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website.

With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function being in the app to clear it, deleting it manually might have unknown side effects, and it's all nonstandard.

[hombre_fatal]

Websites can’t write to arbitrary places on your FS and the browser has a central way to delete the data that a website can write.

Desktop apps can write anywhere, and what it writes might or might not be a cache, so there’s no way to centrally manage it. Apps like cache-cleaners simply hard-code common cache paths for common apps.

[jbverschoor]

Teams web version has local storage of 2gb.

The problem is developers don’t know what the hell they’re doing

[Spooky23]

The problem is devs have beefy computers with 2TB SSDs.

[jbverschoor]

In music, producers would listen to their mix on different audio systems, including crappy radios.

[bavell]

Not just the producers, but musicians often do this as well (the good ones anyway!)

[rTX5CMRXIfFG]

Eh? People have some control over native apps too. It’s just a trade-off of what you want to control. I like how I can control the time I spend in my workflow just because native apps are faster and more battery-efficient, and don’t override OS gestures and mouse events within their own windows.