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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. That meant that user experience was not as rich as it would be for a client-side app. But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous.

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