Re: Immutable OS’s are the answer
I understand the reasons for going to web apps. But what SHOULD have happened is that they re-design the web so that apps could work easily.
the web is very flexible.
If its needed to just present a result or accept input then its fairly ubiquitous, so long as a browser vendor is not tied down then future browser security updates are taken care of by someone else (yes could mean borkage to your app too)!!
Apps that actually crunch data locally could still just have a web front end sending api calls to the app backend. Web presentation should provide greater presentation innovative freedom for the app designer and enables 3rd parties to potentially integrate.
A Web app could mean that huge compute resources can be centralised so the user needs far less capable rendering of a result or it could mean that a program is run in the local browser or it could be a bit of both.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
