To do better?

It's demonstrably possible. And further, why does what some portion of Microsoft, a huge, multi-headed beast, does qualify as the bar for what is reasonable for users to expect?

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ethin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This, and add to that the fact that web apps make it trivial for the dev to just randomly change the GUI out from under me without my consent or ability to prevent it, and, well, wonder why I and so many others dislike them? I want to be able to refuse app updates, thank you very much.

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lenkite 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A question - Which portion of Microsoft, the multi-headed beast develops pure-native apps now ? Even the Windows 11 Settings app is Javascript.

The multi-headed beast has been assimilated by web-tech. They can't code GUI C++ no more - except their compiler/graphics team. And even the latter are dying.

	▲	contextfree 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are like three settings pages that use JavaScript and React Native, the vast majority of Settings is C++ and XAML/WinUI2

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aaomidi 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As a user Microsoft is windows and windows is Microsoft.

If doing native apps was realistic then I’d expect windows, Microsoft, etc to also do them.