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Apple's Shifting Differentiation

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292 points kaboro | 1 comments | 11 Nov 20 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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burlesona ◴[11 Nov 20 13:56 UTC] No.25058399[source]▶
The point about robust collaborative editing as an API is interesting. The HN crowd generally prefers native apps and gets tired of the electron parade, but for major business software it’s increasingly table stakes that another person can see what you’re working on, live, by clicking a link.

Apple does have relatively good live collaboration in its iWork apps. Perhaps there’s a future API there?

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onion2k ◴[11 Nov 20 15:01 UTC] No.25058904[source]▶
The HN crowd generally prefers native apps and gets tired of the electron parade...

There's no significant preference for native; it's just that we won't tolerate bad apps. I'd guess that VSCode is the most popular editor among users here by a long way, and that Google Docs has far more users than MS Word. HN readers don't pick native apps when there's a good Electron or web-based alternative.

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1. vulcan01 ◴[11 Nov 20 15:55 UTC] No.25059372[source]▶
To add on, the reason why it might seem that

> the HN crowd generally prefers native apps

is because it is hard to write a good Electron / web app that is actually performant + easy to use. Which is why many people here are wary of new Electron apps.