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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why does it matter?

because most people use more than one program at the same time? fire up that one along with, I dunno, Spotify and Discord and Slack, and suddenly your midrange laptop's RAM is all but gone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Same thing happens to me if I were to open each of those apps as chrome tabs.

The apps you listed provide a web version also. Adding choice to the customer experience is a good thing!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Adding choice to the customer

"you can have your memory eaten by our website in your browser, or by our website in a separate browser window wearing fake moustache and glasses" doesn't seem to be much of a choice.

meanwhile if you launch their services using something other than a glorified Chrome tab, like spotify-qt or ripcord, they both end up consuming like one tenth of the resources the official clients do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Why do you think everyone cares to optimize every single ounce of their ram memory. There is a lot more to UX than that.

I would rather an imperfect choice than none at all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a bad analogy. A browser with 5 tabs is not like having 5 different browsers open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

User experience is not just about optimizing every little bit of your RAM consumption. They're are plenty of other factors as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, and UX is bad in web applications. I‘m saying that as a web application developer.