1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications
The apparent ubiquity of the “computing cloud”, the ready availability of web-enabled mobile phones and small form-factor netbook and smartbook computers—not to mention the Google Doc’s file store—and the zero-deployment costs of web-based applications might lead us to believe that desktop applications are dinosaurs that don’t yet know they’re extinct.
But before we abandon C++ and Qt and switch to web programming and the subtle pleasures of JavaScript and HTML, it is worth reflecting on just some of the advantages that desktop applications can provide.
- Availability—outside of specialist mission-critical areas we can be sure that on rare (and always inconvenient) ...
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