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You could be right and I do 95% of my tasks in a browser. I just found that I do not want an OS without the other 5% e.g. gaming (unless something like Onlive r
by rakkhi 15y ago
You could be right and I do 95% of my tasks in a browser. I just found that I do not want an OS without the other 5% e.g. gaming (unless something like Onlive really takes off), offline access and performance (unless HTML5 delivers), peripherals like scanning and printing (unless you get devices that can scan and print to email), downloading photos from a camera (same can email?). Native applications on an iPad for example are so much better than the mobile web versions, again unless HTML5 delivers. So there are a lot of "unless if's" in there, if I was a betting man I would not bet on Chrome OS.
- maxwell 15y agoI don't see any of those as "unless ifs", but "whens". Gaming will come to the browser, first with HTML5 and NaCl. Offline access isn't a technical issue, we're just waiting on developers to implement when they feel it's necessary. JS is only getting faster and, combined with efforts like NaCl, we'll have native perf inside 5 years. Printing from my Cr-48 is already solved (Cloud Print is great), and we'll undoubtedly see scanning and camera solutions soon, one way or another. Native tablet apps will be killed by web apps in the same way native desktop apps were/are being.