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"All applications running on AppStream are based in the cloud, so they require no processing power on the target device, with all resources, including storage n
by protomyth 10y ago
"All applications running on AppStream are based in the cloud, so they require no processing power on the target device, with all resources, including storage needs, provided by Amazon." - italics added for emphasis
Has the author looked at the processing required by a modern web browser? This is such a BS statement.
- haggy 10y agoWas thinking the same thing. Cloud doesn't remove need for local processing power. It's simply shifting into a sandboxed environment (the browser). Ironically this could make many apps much less efficient than their native counterparts so if anything you may end up using more local CPU time thanks to everything moving to the cloud :)
- daenney 10y agoSo I can't use this offline? And what happens under shitty network conditions?
- notahacker 10y agoYeah. This might be a selling point for a service doing seriously CPU intensive calculations my computer might not find easy, but for a service editing the sort of documents my 1995 computer could handle it's a negative: the more stuff that's done exclusively on Amazon's servers the less it's handling intermittent connectivity issues by caching views and backing up my incomplete edits
- sp332 10y agoYou don't need a powerful browser. AppStream runs the app on a server and the client is just a thin client. https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/ https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/
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- walterbell 10y agoIs this only for Windows apps with pixels and/or H.264 being streamed to an HTML5 web client? Why would Amazon base a new product on Windows (UWP?) instead of the web?
- sp332 10y agoI don't know. Honestly I think the article is a shot in the dark.