On 16 October 2012 20:10, blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:55 AM, dimitris chloupis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Frankly , I don't find web development that much useful and certainly don't >> believe that web is the future. My money is on the desktop. > > Desktops are a fluke. "Nobody" wanted one before 1995, and "nobody" > will want one after 2015. Or maybe now. :) > i do not think 'desktop' is a right term. for me, personal computing (and personal computers) is better definition. And let me remind you , that personal computers appeared long before 1995.
IMO, the fundamental difference between personal computer apps, that they rely on capabilities of your personal computer. While web-apps, obviously not. Web-apps mainly relocating the computation onto another computer, effectively making your personal one to serve as a remote (even if media-rich) terminal, connected to mainframe. Perhaps web was the catalyst for emergence of cloud-computing. But conceptually, cloud computing is completely orthogonal to 'web', it is just turning computing power into easily accessible commodity. Web, of course, can enjoy exploiting this new approach, as well as any others too. And of course, for certain applications , web will be never completely acceptable, due to: - network latency - security - reliability - etc > Not to say your points about development are wrong. But as Alan Kay > has pointed out, we are compulsive wheel re-inventers. > > ===Blake=== > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
