Google Earth Pro desktop downloads will end in 2027

[linzhangrun]

https://support.google.com/earth/thread/448773864/update-on-google-earth-pro-desktop-app-downloads?hl=en

[mune2gu-chan]

The desktop version feels way snappier once the datasets get big. Not a fan of this trend of turning everything into a web app.

[linzhangrun → mune2gu-chan]

Yes. The desktop version is just too old, built on a 20-plus-year-old base.

[ahartmetz → linzhangrun]

It wasn't designed to properly squander^Wuse current computing power, I see

[CSMastermind]

I despise Google's insistence that everything be a web page.