Re:It's economically *inevitable*. (Score 1)

Isn't the problem with a web-based OS (or, more properly, desktop shell) the ping time of the connection, not the bandwidth? As much as I like a solid AJAX web application, there is an unavoidable annoyance of waiting 1/2 a second everytime you click on something. That would be untolerable for everyday uses like word processing. Has anyone here ever used the Google spreadsheet? It's ungodly frustrating because every time you want to do _anything_, even adjust the width of a box, you have to wait that 1/2 second. Not to mention all the privacy and dependability issues.