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I only use the chatgpt desktop app for quick throwaway interactions.

For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL. Perfect use case for a webapp, native is pointless for this, especially if it's just a webview.



Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for...

- Voice dictation / interactions

- Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop

- Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year


Oh I agree, but this is definitely not it, I don't understand why Anthropic released this, other than squatting the same keyboard shortcut the ChatGPT app uses, with no ability to change it :P.


Chat UIs are really the perfect candidate for a localfirst PWA. I have no idea why they are being built as either a full desktop app or UI where nothing is stored on device.

You’d think with all the funding these companies have they’d make better technical decisions


The shortcut can be changed. Open the app settings from the menu bar, or the usual Command-, shortcut, and it's the only setting they expose.


By not it, do you mean those features aren’t available yet, or you don’t see the value in them?


I do see value, but the Claude app is just a webview with a keyboard shortcut, I don't even think it has voice dictation, I uninstalled it immediately.


You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics


You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.


That requires user to accept permissions (which lately macos giving so many popups made me fatigued and accept everything)


Also data mining! :)


> - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

Who said that this was to help the end user!


Hmm yes, I don't see any issues giving a corporate controlled model with the operational precision of a coin toss full access to my entire system. There is absolutely nothing that could ever go wrong.

Nah but seriously, can we start a counter of how many times a chatbot agent has deleted someone's system32 because it was trained on data of the average tech forum?


> For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL.

Why, exactly?


Probably for bookmarking or working iteratively over different sessions on the interaction and allowing more than one session at a time.


Thanks. After using the Claude app, I noticed several things lacking. The ChatGPT Mac app is significantly better, IMHO.

For some reason, I expected the same from Anthropic, but the Claude app, in its current state, is quite inferior.


Also works really nicely with your shared-cloud-tab provider of choice. If I have a tab open {anywhere} I know it's accessible {everywhere}.


Or sharing.


Can share links from the native ChatGPT app.


And where does it link to?


https://chatgpt.com/share/<chat GUID>

This will open in the native app if it's installed, and on the Web if not. Basically, it works like any modern app link.




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