Re:The desktop is dead (Score 1)

[quote]The future is web based. Endless bloat, inefficient javascript and the latency of accessing remote systems. Why will people accept such a system? because a lot of people never learned to use a desktop, they learned how to use a web browser. Anything outside the web browser looks complicated to them.[/quote]

I hope you are wrong and I agree with you completely. Whilst web based apps provide ease of movement they provide little else.

[quote]There is also the fact that web-based is the new way of making money from software. No piracy since its mostly server-side, lace it with ads and nobody complains about adware. Give it a few years and ads will no longer be served up by dedicated domains you can easily block.[/quote]

Fortunately (if we ever have such a situation) someone one will provide an add blocker.

{quote]If client side desktop computing is to survive the interface has to become more iPhony. Ordinary folk love the touchy feeley colourful, childish looking animated interface of the iPhone so the future is in projects like Hildon. I personally hate the iPhone's interface but thats alright, if its Linux or BSD I'll just install a minimalist window manager which there should always be plenty of.

Nooooo! Please I hate the 'kiddy' big buttons! Give me mean, lean and functional, not Magic Roundabout.