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Understandably, as technologists we are in uproar at yet another Electron app due to the widely-accepted performance concerns many have with them. But if you don't want to run this, you can always just run it in the browser as before. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

I sometimes think we forget that Electron would have allowed them to ship this to customers super quickly, across all desktop platforms, and get a nice-looking application in to the hands of their customers (who probably have been requesting this for years).





Somehow we used to do that in the middle of 16 bit home computer mess, even when it required writing everything in Assembly.

Don't complain about Google taking over the Web, when everyone keeps packaging Chrome with their applications and calling it a native app.


Back then, did we have an app that can do email and calendar, and sync that with our phone?

Did that app work on all operating systems that were in use at that time? With a simple install? On DOS, Amiga, Apple, Acorn, Unix? The same app, with the same functionality?

If not: Would you rather live in a world dominated by native Windows applications, written in C with Win32?


Yes, when the phones were based on Blackberry, Symbian, Windows CE / Pocket PC.

Naturally before that there where no phones with Email to worry about.

There were games available across all those platforms, which are a specific kind of apps.

Wordperfect is good example of something available all over the place during the 1980-90's.

Thankfully C isn't the only way to use Win32, as it was already not the case with Win16.


Which cross-platform email+calendar GUI app existed back then, which could sync with these phones, and works with feature-partity on all of Windows, Mac and Linux, and was not built with web technologies?

> “We” (a couple of fanatics)

Internet comments are all kinda insufferable in this way, because most of what you get are complainers while the happy people stay silent. There must be a name for this phenomenon.

Yea, let’s complain about it!



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