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Loosely echoing a sentiment I've seen recently...
I don't like webapps, I want the web to focus on documents!
On what its good at!
At the same time I'd rather you published your writing/etc under a snazzy URL than to publish an app (wrapping a webpage).
And I'd rather the organizations I sporadically interact with didn't say "Use our app!"
In general I'm not a fan of modern apps...
For anyone saying "but native platforms are worse!"...
1. Not the one I use.
2. You've set a low bar.
3. Who are the incumbant browser-devs?
4. Maybe we need a better cross-platform app platform? I don't really care personally.
Addressing another objection I've heard translating to "What about the appeal of everything on your computer being up-to-date?"
What about the appeal of the data on your computer not changing out from under you? That appeals to me more!
As for the stuff I do want to stay up to date... There's better tech for that now! I hear GNOME's actively looking into it!
@alcinnz whispered echo "the network is the computer"
Sorry, I don't know where that keeps coming from.
@alcinnz I miss the promise that was Java. J2ME was cool back in the day. No matter your phone, if it ran Java apps, it could run your phone Java app. I’m tired of the fragmentation.
Sorry. That was a tangent.
IMHO, "apps" are just a way to circumvent security measures in browsers.
But I LIKE my security measures!
@TerryHancock Yes, too often they are!
@alcinnz Web app level of up to date is really only something that appeals to companies wanting to not support old software.
Which I fully understand. But that isn't usually in the end users best interests.
I do like keeping software up to date, but the NixOS model of 'everything gets updated, or nothing does' is pretty appealing. It should reduce the instances of an update breaking the interactions between applications.