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A better metaphor would be PC and Mac users gathering round a 90s 'thin client' and expressing the same concern. If you've never heard of the 90s thin clients t
by mattnewport 7y ago
A better metaphor would be PC and Mac users gathering round a 90s 'thin client' and expressing the same concern. If you've never heard of the 90s thin clients there's a reason...
- braythwayt 7y agoI have heard of thin clients, they competed with desktop apps, which were the incumbent technology. But thin clients did win, we just call them web apps now, which we run in thin client emulators we call “browsers.” And I recall incumbents scoffing at web technology back then, too.
- mattnewport 7y agoFrom my perspective all the negatives of the web app approach have largely come to pass and I'm moving away from hosted cloud apps. Once bitten twice shy I guess. I'm not sure it's time to declare a winner.
- yawaramin 7y agoYes, your personal perspective invalidates thousands and thousands of webapps out there that are reaching massive numbers of people that they otherwise never would have ;-)