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Re: Google Groups

From Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair
Subject Re: Google Groups
Date 2013-04-02 20:10 +0100
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <20130402201041.43d0e7b3@talktalk.net> (permalink)
References (12 earlier) <kj6bdo$1n3$1@dont-email.me> <kj6hhk$qsj$1@dont-email.me> <kj74gr$b49$1@speranza.aioe.org> <5a19c507-0c60-43a1-b051-2c6739656643@j9g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <op.wuwq20hn34qdui@flay.home>

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On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:53:14 +0100
"Paul E Collins" <equi@cl4.invalid> wrote:

> Whose bright idea was it to ditch decades of desktop UI experience
> and reimplement everything in slow, clunky JavaScript? Would have
> made much more sense IMO just to develop some good cloud/network
> technologies and attach them to fast, responsive desktop apps, rather
> than trying to reinvent Windows entirely in a browser.

What I find really weird, though, is that the opposite is happening on
smartphones and tablets. Want to know the weather, or read the news?
Download the app!

Okay, so these things are usually based on web technologies, but they
still present themselves to the user as discrete applications. Yet on
the desktop, people will run a mile to avoid installing an email
client. I don't get it.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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