Re: Future question of my own - Did DavidI kill Delphi, or announce a product change?

Alexandre Machado wrote:
Well... I consider myself a "power user" and 99% (if not 100%) of my
applications are installed here in my hard drive. So "it's already
happening" for some who *want it*.

It's not only a matter of wanting it, it's a matter of what's possible.
For most regular/non-power users, it's feasible today.

Take a look at this:

http://tide4javascript.com/

Now imagine what will be possible for "power users" in 20 years time.

I won't stop using Outook just because
now *everybody* uses web based mail. It just does not make may job easier,
and will not get me home earlier! Period.

I can't stand Outlook. IMO, Outlook makes life much *more*
difficult/complicated. :)

I don't use webmail as my primary email either (I use portable
Thunderbird), but gmail is pretty darn good. There are many that do use
webmail as their primary email, so it's certainly feasible. I've
considered it myself, but am quite satisfied with my current system.

Well... I dont like Windows Vista (in fact I hate it!). And don't intend to
buy it or use it even if MS give it to me for free. But, answer me honestly:
as a *software developer* how long do you think I can resist????

I think as a software developer you already can't resist to some degree.
Not necessarily in our tools, but in programming mindset.

Many of our tools require installations of some kind. I'm not convinced
that they "should", but they do. Many of these applications, if
carefully coded to minimize dependencies can run off a portable hard
drive no problem. The success of virtualization in part validates this
desire/requirement/capability (many developers use VMs for their dev
environments).

If we're looking ahead 20 years with increased bandwidth and even richer
UI toolkits that allow "just in time" code delivery and execution beyond
what Flash, Silverlight, Java Web Start and W3C "web 2.0" technologies
offer *today*, it's not a far leap at all in my mind. I'd be surprised
if we haven't gone way beyond Outlook, IDEs and Photoshop in 20 years time.

--
Brian Moelk
Brain Endeavor LLC
bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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