I have so much shitty desktop software that could easily be a web app. The steelseries software that manages my usb headset, the crappy Garmin app that connects to my watch, my Corsair keyboard software, that awful Logitech management software, etc.
This entire thread is a symptom of the lack of interest and stagnation of desktop software APIs. Does the Logitech mouse software need to consume 1GB of RAM so I can map a button? Of course not, but Logitech chose that approach because I dunno, trying to write a simple Cocoa app for Mac was too hard, made their brains hurt, so the complex job of “sending predefined configuration parameters in hex over Bluetooth” turns into “ship a small web browser because web devs are cheap as chips and wRiTe OnCE RuN eVeRyWhErE”
I have been building a kind-of geography guessing game in a similar vein. Mine has a solo mode and a party-game mode and doesn't use any AI. I'd love to hear some feedback.
Even if you're right (I don't know or care) I don't know what your point is. That Mozilla should form a commercial agreement with Google instead of DuckDuckGo? Is the latter even an option?
No one in this thread used the word "stealing" before you. I know you think you're being a big tough guy standing up to your corpo overlords or whatever but there are also the people and companies out there creating the media we like to consume and I'd like to see them getting paid at least somewhat commensurate with their value. If we simply accept piracy as legitimate then that value drops to near zero. I don't think this is fair.
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