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Getting ahead of yourself, aren't you?

Even IF the web ever was to replaced the desktop?something I do not
see happening?it would only happen once the web was prevalent
enough that you couldn't go anywhere without a connection.

That's a few decades off from being the case.

This, of course, assumes that internet speeds increase to a level
where it makes more sense to stream things than run them locally.
Considering you can easily get 500GB of space on a laptop and
terabytes on a desktop I think that moment is a very, very long way
away.

Browsers will need to work better, IE more than any of them, but I
don't see them taking over from the operating system in my lifetime,
and I'm only 23. Progress isn't marked by people like us, it's marked
by the people who drag their feet. And each generation is slower to
change than the previous.

People LIKE having stuff locally. Don't believe me? Take a look at how
many people access their web-based email via a desktop client. That's
the most common example.

Posted by: Doug S.   Posted on: 07/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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