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Originally Posted by dangonay
And where is all this software going to come from? Sure it's nice to say you can "rent" software, but it still needs to be developed. As with any new platform, there will be little to choose from in terms of applications, further limiting how many people can adopt the idea of Chrome/Cloud. I just don't see the idea of Chrome and the cloud taking off anytime soon.
Then there's big, bad Microsoft, who appear to be making Cloud computing part on Windows 8. They'll have an OS that can run all those existing Windows applications along with new Cloud-based stuff.
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I've looked at developing for Windows Azure (aka the cloud) and it does not look fun. Deploying and testing seems like it'll be a nightmare.
Then there's the market - what market is there for cloud based computing? For businesses I can think of a few, yet for the end consumer what applications will they pay for to use in the cloud? Will this be the beginning of the Chrome store? Ie I can buy Angry Birds as a cloud based game and access it via any browser anywhere? oh wait... we already have that, they are called websites.
My company has been examining whether it is worth it to release platform specific apps, or to use the web model and just make it accessible to anyone, anywhere - especially as data plans become cheaper and mobile bandwidth faster.