Comments on: Gnome’s Online Desktop

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:35:11 +0000

The day the online desktop becomes reality / requirement is the day my geekiness takes a snapshot and freezes.

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:45:13 +0000

>The visionaries are the ones that matter.

Right. With the shareholder’s money.

By: Thom Holwerda

Thom Holwerda — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:00:12 +0000

The online desktop will fail for the simple reason that it requires being online. Most of the folks out there are still on dialup or on slow broadboand.

On top of that, I simply do not want my crap (apps, data) to be online. The internet fails, breaks down, gets temporary slowdowns - what if I’m working on an important uni thing and the internet fails?

The online desktop is an utopian idea that is simply wasted effort. How about making GNOME itself work and viable for the future, instead of this online nonsense.

By: Adam S

Adam S — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:39:54 +0000

Given the fact that Windows did not have this feature and yet it got 94% of market share in the subsequent years, it only proves that this was either not a killer feature, or not managed properly.

Not sure I agree. It means people weren’t ready for that feature. When Windows gained 94% of the desktop, no one had broadband, no one had external hard drives, and storage space was very expensive. Some computers still came with 2GB hard drives.

The world is different now and things evolve. Luckily, we have people like Havoc who work towards the next killer thing, rather than dismiss them as “never gonna work.”

The “never gonna work” people are irrelevant in life. The visionaries are the ones that matter. Even if he can’t do it, it’s likely that when it eventually is done, they will learn from his experiences.