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>installing a desktop app is more friction than opening a website

On the other hand, the desktop program won't just stop working one day because the company that wrote it changed business plans.

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Who knows they could put something in there to change it, is it an online only desktop app? More and more of my desktop apps now require internet (for some stupid license check or something) so I've been avoiding upgrading them whenever possible but sometimes they sneak it in without telling me. I actually look for that as a feature for desktop apps now.

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