Online Computer Applications
March 6, 2006 – 11:47 amI never thought they could do it, but Google, with Gmail, has successfully taken webmail and made it good enough that I don’t want to launch an application on my computer and check my mail that way. I’ll say it now (and take it back in 5 years, most likely) that no other everyday application will make it from my harddrive to a web interface.
2 Responses to “Online Computer Applications”
You’ll take it back eventually. Soon there will be only two types of programs: Video games and web applications.
The era of the hard-drive resident application is coming to a close.
(I’m just passing on a recieved opinion. I don’t really know. Seems likely to me though.)
By Matthew Talamini on Mar 6, 2006
Someone is going to need to do quite a bit of convincing to make me want to word process online…
The only reason that gmail works in place of a HD client is that it is so network bound.
There are people out there that still have dial up! There are also people who don’t even have dial up!
By dwight on Mar 6, 2006