On 24/09/10 11:22, John Fabiani wrote: > Below is a quote from Ubuntu User by Marcel Gagne: > Some will argue that the desktop no longer matters or if it does, it won't > for > long. They will tell you that the age of mobile technology is here, that Web > apps do it all, and that since Linux, in its Android persona, is on its way > to > ruling the mobile roost, that we should all sit back happily and congratulate > ourselves on finally achieving Linux World Domination. > They are wrong. > Sure, mobile devices are cool. But for the foreseeable future, the desktop > will continue to be the place where the real work gets done. It's the place > where large scale productivity applications will continue to dominate. It's > still where you're going to do your accounting, write letters, create cool > graphics, edit video, and so on. Try to imagine creating a complex marketing > presentation on your iPhone just for fun. See if you can find many businesses > out there that have plans in the next 5 years to dump all their desktop > systems in favor of everyone typing on their smartphone touchpads. Uh huh. > The > desktop matters as much as it ever did and there's a damn good chance that > it's never going away, at least not anytime soon. Barring some truly > revolutionary *ahem* paradigm shift in the way we interface with computers, > of > course. That revolutionary shift hasn't happened. Not yet anyhow. > > Just one of many reasons I believe in the future of Dabo. >
John, I think he is talking about desktop vs mobile, not about desktop *apps* vs *web apps* which would be the case for Dabo. OTOH, when the tools for writing web apps get mature enough that they may *really* compete with a desktop app (don't mean e-commerce and stuff), then I guess we'll see these tools make no distinction at all between desktop or web app and the argument will no longer be. Meanwhile I think that besides the obvious apps that may get advantages from the web, the rest is just fashion. It will go away sooner or later. I'd rather have a setup like Jeff's, that is a desktop accessed through remote desktop from any portable device through VPN, than serving web apps. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
