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But then you have all the usability issues of a complex app shoehorned into a browser. I'll always use a native application when it's available.

[thimabi → add-sub-mul-div]

Not disagreeing, but I find it very ironic that there’s little difference in performance between Excel as a native app and as a web app. I don’t know if that mostly reflects the technical prowess of the web dev team or the inefficiencies of the native app.

[dartharva → thimabi]

That's incorrect. Not only is the web app drastically trimmed of features, but is also in no way a match to the native app in performance.

You can test for yourself - try doing some complex operations on large datasets on both. See which one performs better.

[baq → add-sub-mul-div]

Sheets is unfortunately mostly better than Numbers.