But the performance is worse. I point out the example of a small spreadsheet. Open it in Google sheets, and you are using 1/2 gigs+ in ram plus heavy cpu. Open it in a desktop app maybe you will use 20 to 30 mb of ram, and low cpu usage.
But many of us are not very heavyweight docs/slides/sheets users. For 95%+ of what I do just having a web experience on a browser that’s just a login away is an infinitely better experience than the old desktop days.
In general there’s plenty of performance to go around. For many things I don’t see a big difference between an M1 Pro MacBook and 6 yo machines.
> the performance is worse. I point out the example of a small spreadsheet. Open it in Google sheets, and you are using 1/2 gigs+ in ram plus heavy cpu. Open it in a desktop app maybe you will use 20 to 30 mb of ram, and low cpu usage.
Performance, measured in human units--e.g. time to load, refresh, et cetera--is fine. That's what ultimately matters. The customers are the humans. Not the machines.
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