Originally posted by Darkstar
They aren't around the corner. They've been with us for quite a while now. They just tend to suck so badly from a user's point of view, that your mind is blocking out your experience with them.
They aren't around the corner. They've been with us for quite a while now. They just tend to suck so badly from a user's point of view, that your mind is blocking out your experience with them.
You need to look at things that can be done both as applications running on the desktop and apps running remotely, and see where such remotely-run applications have been gaining ground over desktop based applications. As far as I can tell - not in many places.
There are text processors, games, CAD programs you can on a remote server --- and they all suck compared to desktop based apps. Compare the ease of use of Google Earth in your browser and Google Earth desktop application. Wherever an application is used intensively during work the big issue is lag. When (if) online applications can be made as responsive as those on desktop, only then can they compete. I don't see this happening in the forseeable future, due to significant lag introduced with all the switching on the internet.
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