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Web apps are good for CRUD but little else. What film editor is going to edit a movie using a web browser? What kind of powerful image editing can you do on a web app? Who is going to use ForeFlight in a cockpit over the web? Who wants to play Call of Duty in a browser.

The web is good for displaying information, but it’s not a 1-1 replacement for native.

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I never said all apps should be web apps. I just wrote "always believe in the web" and that you should make a web app if possible.

But I honestly think all your examples are soon to be quite possible with WebGL and WebAssembly. Most apps I use today are web apps so you can do a lot more than just display CRUD. That is simply BS from your part.

Some examples, I stream all my movies that I rent via youtube, I talk to people in real time via Discord, I download files with WebTorrent and I do all my coding in Visual Studio Code.

All of those are web apps and none of those would I consider only to be CRUD apps. Downvote all you want, it is still true that you can do a lot more than simply CRUD on the web.

There is even image editors coming up, sure they are a bit basic still but I think that is about to change: https://pixlr.com/x/

There are web apps for every example you listed, so I don;t understand what point you're trying to make.

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