| The FPS demo is just that: a demo. It's not made by a game company. Sure, I realise that. I'm just saying, maybe it won't be quite as soon as you're thinking that we see high performance web apps. When anyone talks about new startups, they inevitably mean a web-based company. Not around here (Cambridge, UK) they don't. There are plenty of tech start-ups just down the road from me, many spun off from connections to the university and research done there. Some of them make web apps, of course, but most of them don't. I suspect, with no offence intended, that you're probably seeing through the kind of HN-vision I mentioned in another post. Everything is native apps. This is a terrible ideal world you live in. I'm certainly not arguing that everything should be done with native apps. In fact, in my first post to this discussion[1], I argued rather strongly against making native apps for things where a web app works fine. There are pros and cons to each approach, and I'm just saying that I don't think arguing that desktop apps are dead makes any more sense than arguing for building native apps on every platform so you could use a simple on-line database when a single web app would do just as well or (by my original argument) perhaps better. There is plenty of room for both approaches, and as always, we should choose whichever tool best does any given job. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4988159 |
I saw your previous comment earlier, and even gave it an up-vote. I'm new to Hacker News, but perhaps some day I'll have the right to down-vote; and when I do, I won't use it simply because I disagree with someone.