Why Internet services are expanding, and are set to be the next market for big computer players [I meant Apple, Microsoft etc] continues to elude me. Undeniably, yes, we are entering a world where a lot of things are being powered by Flash, AJAX (javascript), and XML. Irrefutably, they have made life, more importantly, online life really easy and facilitated global information communication to a very high level. But are they really a major part of our lives, this magnificent user-friendly web interface that companies are throwing billions onto? I see just a big hoo-ha by big companies to find more ways to make the human race idle.
Flickr, YouTube, Friendster and blogger. For those entertainment sites, we already are spending too much time creating and viewing them. Are we really SOOOOO deprived of photo hosting sites right now? What's so cool about Flickr anyways - more people are using ImageShack and Photobucket. But somehow news agencies simply love to talk about Flickr. Just because it uses fancy Javascripting doesn't make it any better.
Okay, weak argument above. But my point is that, web-based AJAX services are for people to slack off on. For people to find new ways to produce useless content and share it around the way and waste more time viewing them. It's not a viable market. Are you able to foresee the majority of the world population just spending a large portion of their day at these "Internet Services" sites? It's just not going to happen.
What most of us need are secure tools and services. Not like what AJAX provides, which is sooooo weak in encryption. We're never ever going to do anything secure on those technologies.
What most of us don't need are those silly online word processing tools, and similar computer workbench tools. Come on, Windows is ubiquitous. We can practically bring .doc documents anywhere. Unless it's not a Windows. Then again, you have OpenOffice anyway which is multi-platform and can open .doc documents.
Microsoft DOESN'T have a future on online services. There isn't a future to online services unless you love to procrastinate on the web all day, or you're a online advertiser who targets those procrastinators.
Can you imagine a Operation System on the Internet? One that will fail when your internet connection is cut, or lags just because your internet lags? Can you imagine doing anything remotely important on the Internet? People rarely do. Sure we USE the internet as a medium of communication [broadband], much better than a phone line, but we don't DO anything on the internet that's important.
Okay, sorry, but i'm just freaking pissed at what silly things the world is coming up with or working towards.
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