[traceroute66]

> The idea of being able to just make a webpage that can update your drivers is so appealing compared to having to ship apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

I suspect like many here, at $work we use a shit-ton of Flexoptix SFPs.

Flexoptix are not a $megacorp, they are a (very) small German company.

They manage to ship cross-platform apps to flash the SFPs. So its really not that difficult.

I would think a web app would be more of a pain the the butt to maintain because you have to deal with CSS reactive UI etc.

[genthree]

For little utility apps where you don’t care to deviate from UI default appearance and behavior (and, as a user, it’s much better if you don’t anyway, though it’s very trendy to make UX worse by customizing everything) iOS and Android both are dead simple, very easy to write and maintain a utility app for either of them.

An enormous amount of the cost of developing a lot of native apps is customizing the appearance and behavior, to match some slide deck mockup or to make it “on-brand” or whatever. It’s better for the user, and way cheaper, if you just… don’t do that. Hell a lot of common UI elements are easier in native than web if you just don’t try to customize them a ton (data-backed tables and list views and such are sooooo nice)

[skydhash]

I don't know much about Win32, but GTK, QT, Cocoa (Apple),... have nice customization options, and creating custom components is easy.