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Re:YouOS (winter 07) shutting down? by unalone on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:47AM (#260641)
It depends on the application. Notepad I held no feelings toward. But I will fight to the death to protect my use of TextEdit.

And you seem to forget, unless I'm misreading you: a part of using an application is the experience it provides. What are you saying will beat Mac OS and Windows? Google Docs? Buzzword? Hardly.

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Re:YouOS (winter 07) shutting down? by bsaunder on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @01:39PM (#260831)
Good point. I think user experience is important as well. But as demonstrated by many of arcane JavaScript emulators out there (vi, terminals, etc), I'm sure you could devise just about any user experience you would like in a simple web page. I'm not sure the Windows and Mac OS killer exists yet, but I think they will become increasingly irrelevant (as well as the non-browser apps installed on them).
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Re:YouOS (winter 07) shutting down? by unalone on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @02:29PM (#260906)
That's always possible, but I'd bet against that. Perhaps in the long, long run, but I think that 10 years from now the desktop will still house the killer apps. Not the Internet.
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