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Take any app that uses all cores nearly 100%, maybe maxes out the GPU eats 3-5GB of ram, and is a 2-100GB install.

Those will always be native.

These are your Cad programs, your video editors, your AAA games.

You can make a cad program in a browser too. But you trade a chunk of perf for convenience, and thats only rarely acceptable.

Anything that could ever be done in a mobile app (chat, media consumption, ..) those might be possible to do in a browser. But you didn’t even really need a computer for them to begin with.



Tell that to Autodesk. Fusion is like 70% web, slow, and bloated. They don’t even have a good excuse since the whole UI is just a shell around a canvas and could easily be made native, it’s not as if they’re actually benefiting from the DOM or CSS.


That’s the one I was referring to. That is, Fusion is a tradeoff that isn’t always a acceptable (and still it’s not completely web based).




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