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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by alaskamiller on Thursday October 18, 2007 @06:49PM (#69978)
You don't get it. AIR solves all of that. It's offline web-based app. You don't have a connection, fine. Do what you need to do but the second you're online, we validate your application and send you live updates.

Imagine a world 10 years from now where everyone bought a fully enclosed computer like you would buy an iPhone now, but you have to pay a monthly subscription service to get updates or to use it. That's why all these companies are making web-os, thinking that's the way of the future. It's going to be horrible.

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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by uuilly on Friday October 19, 2007 @03:22PM (#70470)
I see, but how do you solve the upload problem? Does your data stay local? Does it sync when you connect? Syncing doesn't dodge the upload problem and if it's local you loose many of the benefits of a web app.
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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by robmnl on Thursday October 18, 2007 @07:01PM (#69989)
There's always going to be free services, don't worry. I'm sure the open source crowd won't stay far behind, they're able to innovate far faster.
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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by corentin on Friday October 19, 2007 @02:16AM (#70183)
Yes, and they throw bolts of lightning from their arses.

Seriously, as much as I like open source software (and I really like it), I can't agree with you on this. I think you're doing raymondism.

There is little innovation in the open source world; it's mostly about making better implementations of things invented long ago by companies or universities. But that's OK because in the end we get good software.

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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by wmf on Thursday October 18, 2007 @08:05PM (#70027)
Except the open source model doesn't support SaaS very well, so if all software becomes SaaS then open source becomes much less relevant.
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Re:Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only by Shorel on Thursday October 18, 2007 @10:23PM (#70111)
I'm sure RMS is thinking of yet another software license to take care of this.
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