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Kenneth Reitz
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Revolution vs. Innovation
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:date: 2009-07-15 01:08
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:category: Code
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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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*I can do that now*.
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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.
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Amazon has EC2, Microsoft has Azure, and Google has AppEngine.
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These are fantastic tools, *but they are nothing new –* Just
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something someone else thought up, executed properly – followed
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through and improved upon.
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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.
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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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*it will build on things we already have.*
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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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`Mozilla's Prism <http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/>`_ for at
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least a year before Chrome was announced. And on OSX I had been
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using `FluidApp <http://fluidapp.com/>`_, which is like Prism on
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Crack.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe I don't need to come up with a revolutionary idea. Maybe I
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just need to be innovative.
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