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They benefit from a .exe (or a .tar.gz or a .apk) downloaded when convenient and run locally


Any app with dynamic data would still need to make some sort of HTTP request before rendering some view with that new data. I don’t really get your point.


If the data is also local, which it can be and in many cases should be, there’s no network request round trip.




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