Comments on: Against Clouds http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/04/03/against-clouds/ experiments in refactored perception Tue, 22 May 2012 18:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ludwig http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/04/03/against-clouds/#comment-830 Ludwig Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:27:49 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/04/03/against-clouds/#comment-830 > One of the nice things about Word and > Photoshop is that once I fire them up > and start working, I can forget all about > the Internet for a few hours. Sometimes, > my PC and I just want to be alone. This is already happening to some extent with the cloud. For example, <a href="http://gears.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Gears</a> helped their "competitor" <a href="http://blogs.zoho.com/category/writer/" rel="nofollow">Zoho writer</a> go <a href="http://blogs.zoho.com/general/zoho-writer-supports-offline-editing/" rel="nofollow">offline</a>. There may be other such options. However, I think the bigger dissuader, especially for someone at the other of a not-so-great "broadband" connection on a not-so-fast computer will still be speed and slickness. Can't help but agree with: > For me, it’ll be years before Photoshop > Express can become powerful enough to > replace my desktop version, or before > Google Docs gets me to uninstall > Microsoft Office. But "years" isn't in the order of 10-12, but 3-4 possibly. > One of the nice things about Word and
> Photoshop is that once I fire them up
> and start working, I can forget all about
> the Internet for a few hours. Sometimes,
> my PC and I just want to be alone.

This is already happening to some extent with the cloud. For example, Google Gears helped their “competitor” Zoho writer go offline.

There may be other such options. However, I think the bigger dissuader, especially for someone at the other of a not-so-great “broadband” connection on a not-so-fast computer will still be speed and slickness. Can’t help but agree with:

> For me, it’ll be years before Photoshop
> Express can become powerful enough to
> replace my desktop version, or before
> Google Docs gets me to uninstall
> Microsoft Office.

But “years” isn’t in the order of 10-12, but 3-4 possibly.

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