Re:Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon
by joe24pack on Thursday May 20, 2010 @07:17AM
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I think he might be referring to the "write once, run anywhere" slogan, about how Java via the JVM would free users and developers from the tyranny of any particular OS.
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Re:Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon
by stcredzero on Thursday May 20, 2010 @08:53AM
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The OS might be a tyranny, but it's also a tremendous resource. Just because one is in a totalitarian regime, it doesn't mean that one can't do business.
Smalltalk eschewed the OS for true write once, run anywhere freedom. One result was that the community missed out on the synergies of both the Windows and FOSS ecosystems. (This is one thing Perl, Python, and Ruby do right.)
In the case of Google: they too have established their own ecosystem. They can extend their ecosystem and increase synergies with Web Apps in general. The OS won't go away, but it has ceased to be the central focus of computer use. Apps (web or otherwise) and the networks they provide access to are the central focus of most users today.