On Saturday 21 November 2009 03:21:38 am Niles Collins wrote: > What happens when google's services goes down?? Which > they seem to often do these days. You have a locally > stored cache in RAM? on a hard disk?? what if you reboot > and then cannot access any docs? I do like the idea of > treating the OS as firmware though, makes it less likely > for malicious software to ruin your day. Since it is open > source I will wait for the OS to get ported to a more > conventional setup.
The idea will be interesting, particularly if the laptops (or netbooks, whatever the new snazzy term is these days) are priced right. Without the hassle of having to pay for code (OS, applications, e.t.c.) or having to learn a free option (Linux, FreeBSD, e.t.c.), folk could potentially keep things simple since almost anyone with basic computer understanding can run a web browser. However, yes, there is much to be concerned about re: your data's online safety, both in terms of privacy and availability. Whatever the case, it's a new-ish paradigm. Would be interesting to see how it evolves, and what it means for the Internet (infrastructure) in general. As someone once said, perhaps "software is infrastructure". Cheers, Mark.
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