Comments on: Google’s Chrome OS changes everything http://www.internet-marketing-db.com/2009/07/googles-chrome-os-changes-everything/ Definitions, Examples, and Case Studies of Online Marketing Strategies by Rob Walker Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:58:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Top Toad http://www.internet-marketing-db.com/2009/07/googles-chrome-os-changes-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Top Toad Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:58:04 +0000 http://www.internet-marketing-db.com/?p=453#comment-807 I've got a somewhat less optimistic position here: http://www.techonadime.net/2009/07/is-google-getting-ready-to-do-evil.html I like your take, though. I'm actually not sure that I want all desktop apps to go away. I'm more in favor of a distributed system where hardware can exist anywhere the user wants it to but the access to that hardware is a common interface. For example, if I want to have my own server at home, I can. Access to it would look exactly like access to a Google Docs file system - indistinguishable. I like the richness of the fat desktop environment and the portability of the cloud, and think the two should be combined in some fashion. I liken the "cloud hype" to the days when everybody predicted the end of mainframes and the rise of client-server computing. What did we end up with? A hybrid solution. There are just some things that dedicated hardware does better than hardware accessed through a layer of abstraction (such as a browser, virtual OS, etc)...just like there are some things mainframes do better than x86 servers. Top Toad I’ve got a somewhat less optimistic position here:
http://www.techonadime.net/2009/07/is-google-getting-ready-to-do-evil.html

I like your take, though. I’m actually not sure that I want all desktop apps to go away. I’m more in favor of a distributed system where hardware can exist anywhere the user wants it to but the access to that hardware is a common interface. For example, if I want to have my own server at home, I can. Access to it would look exactly like access to a Google Docs file system – indistinguishable. I like the richness of the fat desktop environment and the portability of the cloud, and think the two should be combined in some fashion.

I liken the “cloud hype” to the days when everybody predicted the end of mainframes and the rise of client-server computing. What did we end up with? A hybrid solution. There are just some things that dedicated hardware does better than hardware accessed through a layer of abstraction (such as a browser, virtual OS, etc)…just like there are some things mainframes do better than x86 servers.

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