Time to boot back into Chrome OS on my Cr-48!
Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
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Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#12The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks. And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone. Native apps are toast, in the long run. Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write. It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years. And what that means is ALL software is heading there too. N…
Are you being sarcastic?
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#13I don't think a new UI is enough to make Chromebooks suddenly matter. I got one at a conference and ended up giving it to a friend because the build quality and specs were terrible - it looked and felt and ran crap without even taking into consideration how different they are to use .
What's sad is that they couldn't get the original Chrome OS to feel any faster in use than Windows 7 on Atom.
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#14The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks. And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone. Native apps are toast, in the long run. Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write. It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years. And what that means is ALL software is heading there too. N…
Care to explain why you believe native apps are toast in the long run, or how that's related to data moving to the cloud?
Web apps solved the problem of having to figure out how to find, install, or update software and not having it everywhere you go. App stores have caught up on discovery/installation/updates, and mobile has solved the problem of not having it everywhere I go.
Web apps will eventually catch up on performance and maybe someday they will feel like first class citizens in any given OS rather than being relegated to mess of throwaway tabs. We've been within 3 years of that for something like a decade, but maybe we really finally are within 3 years of that.
But we aren't within 3 years of having any two web apps looking similar and using familiar UI elements. Every web app is a new UI to learn, maybe not a problem for you or me, but mobile has reached 3 year olds and 90 year olds and everyone in between, most of whom have not acquired the skill to pick up umfamiliar UIs and don't want to.
As for data moving to the cloud, I'm with you. And I have a lot of native apps that interact with remote data.
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#15Anyone have a link to screenshots of the Aura UI?
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#16The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks. And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone. Native apps are toast, in the long run. Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write. It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years. And what that means is ALL software is heading there too. N…
taps his sarcasm detector looking confused, frowns, throws it over his shoulder and glares
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#17This is one of my heroes, he never has let me down in his opinions. No BS, straight talk, one of the very few relevant people still not sold out in this business.
Turning the desktop into a retarded terminal for some company's javascript apps is a bad idea, but some can't seem to grasp that.
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
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#19While reading the post, I was not sure if the tone was sarcastic or genuine! On a second read, it does feel like a genuine comment. Some folks should use 'Not Sarcasm' tag!
That's the Linus way. You never know when he's being sarcastic, but mostly he's being serious with a few sarcastic turns.
Re: Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
#20The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks. And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone. Native apps are toast, in the long run. Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write. It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years. And what that means is ALL software is heading there too. N…
Great, another prophet. Worst thing is, if you somehow are correct, you would not stop shoving it in people's faces how right you are. Cloud is not the future, not with the current US internet infrastructure at least.
Also why would someone pay 10 dollars a month for 50 GB of space in the cloud when you can buy 1 TB portable hard drives for dirt cheap?