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  • Fluid@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Why bother with making any apps these days when you can just build a web app and have it work across platforms.

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      7 months ago

      Because they almost always universally suck across platforms. Only exception I’ve seen thus far is Figma.

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      7 months ago

      First thing comes to mind is app integration with vision pro. I guess web app is not native enough for what they want to achieve

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        For video purposes Safari will support VR. AR support is improving but probably is a way off from native APIs.

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      Because once you add all the tracking and advertising, and try to prevent ad-blockers, they don’t work as well. You’re also limited in tracking by restrictions all browsers have to some extent

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        7 months ago

        Webassmely is still an option. Iirc Photoshop uses this for it’s web version and it seems to work very well