[dmitrygr]

They benefit from a .exe (or a .tar.gz or a .apk) downloaded when convenient and run locally

[camdenreslink]

Any app with dynamic data would still need to make some sort of HTTP request before rendering some view with that new data. I don’t really get your point.

[hem777]

If the data is also local, which it can be and in many cases should be, there’s no network request round trip.