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Apple's Shifting Differentiation

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292 points kaboro | 3 comments | 11 Nov 20 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sarosh ◴[11 Nov 20 14:05 UTC] No.25058471[source]▶
I thought this statement from the article had more than a hint of truth to it: "Figma in Electron may destroy your battery, but that destruction will take twice as long, if not more, with an A-series chip inside!"
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lalo2302 ◴[11 Nov 20 14:32 UTC] No.25058689[source]▶
This will allow Sketch to kick Figma's ass as soon as they solve their online multi-user editing
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1. pantulis ◴[11 Nov 20 14:38 UTC] No.25058736[source]▶
Ben’s blow at Sketch seemed a little excessive to me, but that is the painful path that Evernote has decided to follow to survive. Although the target market is designers and sketch is not multi platform, being full native is hard.
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2. gammarator ◴[12 Nov 20 04:11 UTC] No.25066348[source]▶
Unfortunately Evernote has destroyed its performance by doing so. The Evernote support boards are full of angry paying users figuring out how to downgrade versions and discussing alternatives.
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3. pantulis ◴[12 Nov 20 07:55 UTC] No.25067536[source]▶
Don’t tell me... I am a paying EN customer.

Although I find that the biggest performance impact is not Electron but that now you don’t have a local database and a lot of requests are going through the network before the caching mechanisms kick in.

In my opinion, it’s the correct move to make but incredibly hard. Now they have launched v10 they have at most and additionaa billing cycle (12 months) to start cranking out compelling features and polishing the product.

My concern with EN is that they bleed so many paying users that they end being unsustainable. Time will tell.