Idle wondering: are there any venture-backed companies founded in the last ten years shipping a substantial native, AppKit-based macOS app?
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Thread with screenshots: In America, mainstream native desktop (macOS or Windows) are in decline, and developers increasingly opt for building web apps or Electron apps. However, web apps vs. native desktop apps is a completely different story in companies such as China.
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Oh man, I’m not going to be able to stop thinking about that now. My gut feel is No but if I just (w)rack my brain enough…
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This is one of those “interesting question” type tweets that I want Twitter to recycle to the top of my feed so I can check updated comments without thinking
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The future is web-SaaSy it seems. Perhaps due to reach? A website can be accessed anywhere, a platform specific app requires choosing a platform. Phones seem to change this equation because probably it's hard for developers to do some things via websites (like clubhouse)
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I think platform heterogeneity is the driving factor here, rather than SaaS-ification. A lot of SaaS is almost exclusively used from desktop clients (e.g. Slack), but those clients are still non-native because it's too expensive to support all the relevant platforms.
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Follow-up: are there any native apps by venture-backed companies that aren't just a fancy interface to a web service?
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