Re: Memochat - Web Apps, Cloud computing, no hard drive

Carl Banks wrote, On 11/23/09 7:10 PM:
On Nov 23, 4:22 pm, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> wrote:
Kyle T. Jones wrote, On 11/23/09 6:01 PM:





"The OS's focus on design is consistent with the company's stance that
the future is in the web. In July, Vic Gundotra, Google's engineering
vice president and developer evangelist, spoke on a panel about app
stores, in which he said native apps (such as those available for the
iPhone) would be obsolete in the future, and that the Web will "become
the platform that matters."
"Every capability you want today, in the future it will be written as a
web application," Pichai said Thursday."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/20/google.os/
This is about Google's new Chrome OS. No hard drive. Data stored
online and with flash drives. No ability to install new apps - all you
have, really, is an engine for rendering web-based content.
So, good - bad - or indifferent?
I kinda like having my own apps, although I'm hard-pressed to name many
that couldn't be translated to web-app form. I guess some utilities,
off the top of my head.
I have more to say about this but would love to hear other folks
feedback - especially in terms of the "all apps should be webapps" meme.
I think what Google is missing is that mainframes died
for a reason.

What are you talking about? Mainframes are alive and well.


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