Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
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Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
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Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#2Maybe we should start calling these services as "Web Desktop" instead of WebOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#3Maybe we should start calling these services as "Web Desktop" instead of WebOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
Does anyone use any of these services? I've always thought it was best to let the underlying real operating system take care of windowing and let each URL be one application.
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#4Maybe we should start calling these services as "Web Desktop" instead of WebOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
Does anyone use any of these services? I've always thought it was best to let the underlying real operating system take care of windowing and let each URL be one application.
I have same feeling. Youos is wonderful but I always feel it waste too much screen space. On the other hand current browser is not very suitable for running multiple web apps also. Maybe we need a better container...
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone use any of these services? I've always thought it was best to let the underlying real operating system take care of windowing and let each URL be one application.
I have same feeling. Youos is wonderful but I always feel it waste too much screen space. On the other hand current browser is not very suitable for running multiple web apps also. Maybe we need a better container...
What we need is the desktop as the container...
But really, what we are talking about is just a resurgence of thin clients. And why not? They make sense. No updating software, all your files are there for you whereever you go and today we have the bandwidth to handle it (we do vid downloads without batting an eyelid!).
Especially with Google's gears coming along, it will mean we can do everything offline. It's getting close to CMS your home dir and apps.
When I was in high school (15 years ago or so) I said the perfect computer app would be one where you didn't know it was there and just used it to do what ever you wanted, like in TNG. This is getting close!
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have same feeling. Youos is wonderful but I always feel it waste too much screen space. On the other hand current browser is not very suitable for running multiple web apps also. Maybe we need a better container...
What we need is the desktop as the container... But really, what we are talking about is just a resurgence of thin clients. And why not? They make sense. No updating software, all your files are there for you whereever you go and today we have the bandwidth to handle it (we do vid downloads without batting an eyelid!). Especially with Google's gears coming along, it will mean we can do everything offline. It's gettin…
1. Privacy (and don't tell me it is overrated, it's not)
2. Reliability (yes, I do understand my hard drive can fail, but my OS doesn't delete my e-mail just as GMail did)
3. And the fact that I have to go online to fetch my file
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#7"But nobody ever talks about a "Wall Street Operating System" or a "Small Business Operating System" do they?"
Microsoft Small Business Server? - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs (I know, I'm missing the point...)
I do agree that it's a web desktop, not a complete OS, but his reasoning seems a little off...
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#8I disagree with this. An OS is whatever apps run on, and you could write things that most of the next generation of web apps would run on. I believe Parakey was (and perhaps still is) intended to be such a platform.
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What we need is the desktop as the container... But really, what we are talking about is just a resurgence of thin clients. And why not? They make sense. No updating software, all your files are there for you whereever you go and today we have the bandwidth to handle it (we do vid downloads without batting an eyelid!). Especially with Google's gears coming along, it will mean we can do everything offline. It's gettin…
1. Privacy (and don't tell me it is overrated, it's not) 2. Reliability (yes, I do understand my hard drive can fail, but my OS doesn't delete my e-mail just as GMail did) 3. And the fact that I have to go online to fetch my file
1. Encryption
2. Local storage
3. Local storage
Re: Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)
#10Maybe we should start calling these services as "Web Desktop" instead of WebOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
Does anyone use any of these services? I've always thought it was best to let the underlying real operating system take care of windowing and let each URL be one application.
We're probably not the target market, though, either.