Hallo, How are yourself doing ?
You want a Web Desktop ? Meet the World Wide Web. Don't need to go one app at a time as there are gazillions of apps out there, ALREADY. Web based apps. They are called websites. Good, now you know about it.
Please don't torture yourself with all this thinking. Google hasn't been doing anything new. They make money from ads.
If you have used gmail, you will HOPE and PRAY that customer relationship does not belong to google. Have you never seen gmail error pages like "Cross your fingers and try again". That scared the shit out of me and I moved back to my old retarded email, called hotmail. Microsoft cannot afford to fuck up on that, while Google doesn't give a rat's ass about me.
All those who think Microsoft is rotting, is starting to fade away,etc are badly mistaken. Infact it is about to get bigger and powerful when Longhorn comes out. XAML would replace HTML because it will be better. Longhorn is going to be pre-installed on every new computer that ships, whether you like it or not. Face it guys, why would anyone care a damn about Linux on the desktop when they have a '21st century' LOOKING desktop. Would you sacrifice your personal productivity for the CAUSE, to dent Microsoft ? You are using Windows now and you will be using Windows in the future. Linux might be very secure and Mac might look good, but that doesn't matter anymore. Java on the desktop is dead,.NET has supplanted it. Would you as a developer, sacrifice providing a better user experience for the CAUSE ? No, you won't, no one will. Face it guys, Longhorn is the next 'browser' (IE is dead) and we will be developing apps for it in the future and that will mean Mac and Linux will be dead on the desktop by 2010. Microsoft is about to own the internet as we know it. Hats off to whoever devised this brilliant ploy !
Only way this can be thwarted:
-OEMs stop bundling Windows. Why will they ? They got families to feed.
-Someone clones.NET and XAML engine.
- ???
Bottomline...especially in India...no one cares whether their OS is Windows or Linux, people just want a computer that can do this, this and that. People have nothing to do with whether or not Microsoft engages in monopolistic behavior, or whether 'open source' is morally superior,etc etc. The market is still very open, so either Linux or Windows could win. The key to all this is Dell, if Dell becomes a key player, selling cheap but good quality computers, loaded with Windows, then Windows wins. If those comps are loaded with Linux, then Linux wins. The computer companies in India and China have all tried, but haven't become big enough to be ablev to sustain and grow the operations in the vast markets of India and China. Dell can do that, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dell's headquarters move to somewhere in India within this decade.
heard all the hoopla about skype a while ago, went to their site, bought talktime worth 10 euros, only been able to make 1 international call...sound quality was too pathetic...not only that...every single call since then hasn't gone through. nopes, the thing just can't dial. I hope skype would have been this great service it was touted to be...but it ain't.
You are right. "Conversations" and "Search mail" are innovative features. Even the "No-Graphical ads" is an innovative feature when compared to other email providers. However, there were and probably still are a lot of other email services which had some nifty feature, but which most people haven't heard of. Google was able to create a hype about GMail mainly due to its success as a search engine. But what I am baffled about is why is GMail still in beta....why don't they get a final product to market or just kill it if they aren't really interested in it ? The whole anxiety about whether or not Google would come out with more products is similar to a boxing bout, where Microsoft is already in one corner, having defeated a lot of opponents, and the crowd is now hungry for more....and Google seems like a capable challenger...but all this while Google is sitting in the dressing room, grunting and making noises. Let's get on with the show !
I have been using gmail for a while now, but 1GB of free email isn't exactly innovation. Why do you think it is still in beta ? Probably because Google cannot support more than 800,000 users who are using exactly 1GB at the same time (since it's 'servers' are mostly stripped down computers with 80GB of hard disk space each).
Only innovative approach was that it fuelled Hotmail and Yahoo to increase their free email storage substantially.
And any one of us can and will come up with a better search algorithm than that of Google. One day..
Billions of dollars in market capitalization.
Lot of PHDs.
Lot of talk.
Lot of betas.
Lot of rumours.
1999-present, Just one real product/service, called Google search.
Google is coming up with email, browser, IM...sorry Google...but these have already been invented...how about something NEW ?
Is Google simply not focussed on getting real products to market ? or will it and it's PHDs stay involved in altruistic computer science research.
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Hallo, How are yourself doing ? You want a Web Desktop ? Meet the World Wide Web. Don't need to go one app at a time as there are gazillions of apps out there, ALREADY. Web based apps. They are called websites. Good, now you know about it. Please don't torture yourself with all this thinking. Google hasn't been doing anything new. They make money from ads. If you have used gmail, you will HOPE and PRAY that customer relationship does not belong to google. Have you never seen gmail error pages like "Cross your fingers and try again". That scared the shit out of me and I moved back to my old retarded email, called hotmail. Microsoft cannot afford to fuck up on that, while Google doesn't give a rat's ass about me.
All those who think Microsoft is rotting, is starting to fade away,etc are badly mistaken. Infact it is about to get bigger and powerful when Longhorn comes out. XAML would replace HTML because it will be better. Longhorn is going to be pre-installed on every new computer that ships, whether you like it or not. Face it guys, why would anyone care a damn about Linux on the desktop when they have a '21st century' LOOKING desktop. Would you sacrifice your personal productivity for the CAUSE, to dent Microsoft ? You are using Windows now and you will be using Windows in the future. Linux might be very secure and Mac might look good, but that doesn't matter anymore. Java on the desktop is dead, .NET has supplanted it. Would you as a developer, sacrifice providing a better user experience for the CAUSE ? No, you won't, no one will. Face it guys, Longhorn is the next 'browser' (IE is dead) and we will be developing apps for it in the future and that will mean Mac and Linux will be dead on the desktop by 2010. Microsoft is about to own the internet as we know it. Hats off to whoever devised this brilliant ploy !
Only way this can be thwarted:
-OEMs stop bundling Windows. Why will they ? They got families to feed.
-Someone clones .NET and XAML engine.
- ???
Bottomline...especially in India...no one cares whether their OS is Windows or Linux, people just want a computer that can do this, this and that. People have nothing to do with whether or not Microsoft engages in monopolistic behavior, or whether 'open source' is morally superior,etc etc. The market is still very open, so either Linux or Windows could win. The key to all this is Dell, if Dell becomes a key player, selling cheap but good quality computers, loaded with Windows, then Windows wins. If those comps are loaded with Linux, then Linux wins. The computer companies in India and China have all tried, but haven't become big enough to be ablev to sustain and grow the operations in the vast markets of India and China. Dell can do that, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dell's headquarters move to somewhere in India within this decade.
heard all the hoopla about skype a while ago, went to their site, bought talktime worth 10 euros, only been able to make 1 international call...sound quality was too pathetic...not only that...every single call since then hasn't gone through. nopes, the thing just can't dial. I hope skype would have been this great service it was touted to be...but it ain't.
You are right. "Conversations" and "Search mail" are innovative features. Even the "No-Graphical ads" is an innovative feature when compared to other email providers. However, there were and probably still are a lot of other email services which had some nifty feature, but which most people haven't heard of. Google was able to create a hype about GMail mainly due to its success as a search engine. But what I am baffled about is why is GMail still in beta....why don't they get a final product to market or just kill it if they aren't really interested in it ? The whole anxiety about whether or not Google would come out with more products is similar to a boxing bout, where Microsoft is already in one corner, having defeated a lot of opponents, and the crowd is now hungry for more....and Google seems like a capable challenger...but all this while Google is sitting in the dressing room, grunting and making noises. Let's get on with the show !
I have been using gmail for a while now, but 1GB of free email isn't exactly innovation. Why do you think it is still in beta ? Probably because Google cannot support more than 800,000 users who are using exactly 1GB at the same time (since it's 'servers' are mostly stripped down computers with 80GB of hard disk space each). Only innovative approach was that it fuelled Hotmail and Yahoo to increase their free email storage substantially. And any one of us can and will come up with a better search algorithm than that of Google. One day..
Billions of dollars in market capitalization. Lot of PHDs. Lot of talk. Lot of betas. Lot of rumours. 1999-present, Just one real product/service, called Google search. Google is coming up with email, browser, IM...sorry Google...but these have already been invented...how about something NEW ? Is Google simply not focussed on getting real products to market ? or will it and it's PHDs stay involved in altruistic computer science research.