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Will you still prefer desktop app if you get all its benefits with web app?

• toddmorey 14y ago
  Because you really don't get all the benefits of a native app with a web app. It's getting better, the gap is closing, but it will be a while before web apps are an enjoyable an experience as a native app. I think Sparrow was actually a good proof point of that.
  • potatolicious 14y ago
    More than that - apps like Sparrow move the goalposts actually. It was such a superior to experience to even the best native clients of the day that it widened the gap between web and native once again.
    • untog 14y ago
      What was so much better about it? I tried it and was unimpressed. Search was slower and worse than web, for one. That surprised me.
      • knewter 14y ago
        sometimes I'm surprised by this sort of thing, but then I remember that Google is INSANELY GOOD AT SEARCH and I stop being surprised when that plays out.