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Yeah? Spotify, Skype, Google Earth, any developer tool, iTunes, Sonos, Keynote, MS Office, Photoshop, any video game ..... there are plenty of popular native desktop apps out there. I'd say there'd be more too, if the industry made them more frequently. But all we churn out are web apps these days - not because that's what users demand but for all sorts of other reasons.


"Native desktop" spotify is just a web app wrapped into an embedded Chromium browser.


"just" a browser with a lot of native technology baked in to enhance the experience. Playlist caching for one.


localStorage.getItem("myPlaylist")

I'm not saying that's what they use, it could be WebSQL, IndexedDB, FileAPI - local data storage is built into your browser.




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