My Antipathy to Web Apps
Though it appears that the world is entering the age of the web app, I personally have an aversion to them in general. Why? I’m not really that sure to be honest. Maybe I don’t like relying on on something that could go away tomorrow, taking my data along with it. Or perhaps I prefer the ’solidness’ that (most of the time) defines one’s experience when using a Mac.
I’m inclined to think that it’s the later. I like the idea of opening an app to do task X, the concept of opening Safari, navigation to website Y to do task X doesn’t resinate with me.
I’m very much aware of the distinct advantages of of a cloud based application but right now, owning both a notebook and iPhone I’m very happy sticking, for the most part (because there are a couple of exceptions), with desktop applications.
I’ve decided to start porting all our apps to be somewhere between web apps and desktop apps for the pretty much the same reasons. We want to take advantage of having our(/our customers) data in our own little cloud (or Derby lol) but I don’t like the appearance of flimsy-ness given off by a web app so we’re keeping our desktop apps, even if most of the work is done “in the cloud”. It also means I can start work on an OSX client and try and bring some customers over from the dark side