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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="revolution-vs-innovation.html"
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rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Revolution vs. Innovation">Revolution vs. Innovation</a></h1> </header>
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<abbr class="published" title="2009-07-15T01:08:00">
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Wed 15 July 2009
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<p>In <a href="./category/Code.html">Code</a>.
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<p>I've been thinking alot about this cloud-computing "movement" that
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has been a buzz word for the past year and half or so. Being able
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to access anything from anywhere? Awesome, but
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<em>I can do that now</em>.</p>
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<p>I don't really get it why everyone's like "oh this will totally
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change computing as we know it". I beg to differ. Perhaps it will
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change the way we develop, or organize. But not how Desktops sell.
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Or eliminate the need for desktop software. The desktop is not
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going to die. Not from Azure, at least.</p>
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<p>Amazon has EC2, Microsoft has Azure, and Google has AppEngine.
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These are fantastic tools, <em>but they are nothing new –</em> Just
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something someone else thought up, executed properly – followed
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through and improved upon.</p>
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<p>Bill Gates came up with the idea of a true Software Company. This
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was revolutionary. Apple took Bill's model, and innovated. They
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improved upon it. And look at what's happening.</p>
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<p>I really doubt that Google's new OS is going to bring us anything
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we don't have already. I do think, however, that
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<em>it will build on things we already have.</em></p>
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<p>When Chrome came out, it didn't offer anything that we didn't
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already have. Sure it's a fantastic browser, and I don't want to
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discount that. But the ability to run "web apps" as applications is
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nothing new. I had been using
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<a class="reference external" href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/">Mozilla's Prism</a> for at
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least a year before Chrome was announced. And on OSX I had been
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using <a class="reference external" href="http://fluidapp.com/">FluidApp</a>, which is like Prism on
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Crack.</p>
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It seems like the smart thing to do in the tech world nowadays is
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to follow through with great ideas – even if they aren't yours.</blockquote>
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<p>Mozilla's team came up with the idea of running web apps at
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application with SSB's (single site browsers), but implementation
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of Prism was slow, and incredibly buggy. They didn't follow
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through. Google did. and Google won.</p>
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<p>Maybe I don't need to come up with a revolutionary idea. Maybe I
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just need to be innovative.</p>
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