| "Client side will thin out and beef up" - 2012 |
Sun, 07th Jun 09 5:16pm |
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LarrySDonald |
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Technology will keep moving toward thinner clients, i.e. computers, phones and PDAs with less storage but more hardcore on the connectivity. Most people now don't really need 300Gb or 1Tb locally because they're not using it. They're using all this complexity to access a web browser. That can run on almost nothing in terms of local storage. Hence netbooks, iphones (and clones), kindle, etc are rather successful.
The processing power and RAM will beef up, because it's actually useful (your facebook/myspace/WoW/visi onary dictionary will load faster and be more nimble) but storing locally will become like paying cash - not exactly illegal it's just not that useful for anything legal/non-private. People have said that before and back then I called the correct pocket - it's not time. Online/LAN storage hadn't matured to the point where it made sense. Now, it does. I swapped over my wife to a LiveCD of BackTrack to diagnose a hardware problem and she barely noticed. People run phones and laptops that do nothing but online work just fine, using SDs, thumbdrives and tiny HDs without noticing much of a difference. Storage and software is being dethroned piecemeal, this trend will continue until you are running the thinnest client possible. It'll be one that works on your cell, your desktop, your laptop and whatever other devices you care to carry around. It's the future and it's virtually already here, only holding off until people give up the concept of wanting local physical storage.
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 | | LarrySDonald - 2009-06-08 14:29:08 | | | @BB, 'k I will when I have a moment (kind of going through my morning routine). OpenOffice is already fairly serious. MS still has a pretty solid grip with Office, but it's changing a bit. I've had non-geeks ask me about OpenOffice, which usually means something is pretty big. In the past, people usually got a pirated or preinstalled version of Office (no way you're sucking $200-$500 out of a random student or worker to do their checkbook and type up the odd letter now and again) but with piracy becoming more illegal and more cracked down on many are noticing OpenOffice (As good except for being "non-standard", free legally) isn't such a bad proposition.
I think much of that will start moving online too though. It's just too convenient to basically have everything online. Any computer with a browser instantly becomes "your" computer - read your mail, dig through your pictures and old docs, check facebook, play your music.. Nothing local needed. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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| | LarrySDonald - 2009-06-08 02:07:10 | | | In general, I mean that computers/phones will get smaller. Even an iPhone or clone can right now run 99% of what people do. The only snag is the screen size, when sitting down people like a nice large screen. I'm sure people will have to upgrade, but not by much with current tech.
Companies competed on how fast your desktop/phone/laptop ran. That's over. Only a small minory cares and they buy rack servers or rack server time. Most people do their work on websites already. When the smooth transition to "everything online" or "only something minor, firefox + openoffice local" hits, it'll be completely over - the thing in front of us is only for showing what that sever farm is making for us. That was a good plan the first time and I think it's now happening. Almost nothing you do with a phone or computer is local, and it's only going to be less later. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | mephisto - 2009-06-07 23:54:33 | | | Will our current mobiles etc, need to be upgraded for max performance? | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | TheGreatVisionar - 2009-06-07 17:57:01 | | | Think it means everything will be done on our mobiles and all our data and saved items will be stored in the sky not on the item in our hands. This will make everything smaller and possibly quicker? The technology is here right now, they are just getting it right. Year should be spot on. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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