Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
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2008-05-22
Most people in this forum seem to care about efficiency, slim design, "sense", whatever. Obviously, there are many developers, coders and power users here.
Compare that to the general "Aunt Mary" or "John Doe" ... neither of them cares how complex a piece of software is. It's a lot of more complex than they can understand, anyways. They care about ease of use, availability, perhaps price.
On the other side, there's this big company. They want market share and are willing to give a lot for it. Traditional applications don't fit their business model, as those tend to keep all data local to the computer's hard disk. No urgent need to "go online" means no chance to intercept for advertisement.
So they put their full weight into getting people using web apps. Web apps mean chances for advertisement, chances for data indexing, chances for "targeting", whatever that means.
Everybody who tried to make and sell something already knows how difficult it is to get the message out to the customer. Average people don't seek for the good source code design, but for a nice look. Often they use whatever they find first. Very often they take what they saw in some ads. It's the marketing company reaching those people and selling items, not the developer making headaches about designing his code.
So, traditional applications do have a lot of competition here. Wether chrome is a reasonably designed browser, a virtual machine or a complete OS on top of another OS, 95% of the computer users just don't care.
Traumflug
Edited 2008-09-09 08:26 UTC