Question:
What is there to stop GP computer system builders, the IMG and
whoever else engaged in the business of information technology to
build around the web browser as the universal client?
think of it: web browser, web e-mail protocol (on secure servers),
multimedia, database processing and a host of other cheap, robust
and efficient features.
What do I need millions of megabytes sitting on my hard disk for?
Vanity?
This 'hard disk mentality' has seduced and pervaded all thinking
hitherto.
Everybody wants everything right there in their hard disk.
What do I need, for example, the entire Read database on my hard
disk for? Ditto drug dictionaries, directories, knowledge DBs
etc.etc.
What do I need complicated e-mail protocols to make simple
communications for? Why can't I just use the browser to send mail,
files, images and the whole lot for that matter. Wouldn't it be
attractive just to be able to that from *anywhere* and from *any*
platform?
Oh, it goes on and on. May be this is just an opener, after all,
I am only a gormless user!
Ahmad
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