It's amazing how much commentary there has been about a piece of vaporware that is over a year from release (at least). Oh, I'm sure Google will release it, but there is so little known about the final architecture that it is almost impossible to speculate intelligently about it.
And does anyone see the parallel with the Java Network Appliances that were going to be "the next big thing" at the end of the 90's? Certainly, we live in a much more connected world today, but to pretend that nothing of value is done on PCs except opening up a browser is a bit of a blindered view, IMO. Oh well, it's all just speculation until there's a product..
When I look back on the years [most of the 70's] I spent programming 16K x 18-bit single-digit megaherz machines, with single-digit megabyte hard disks (although they were head-per-track, which makes them much faster - similar to lousy SSD's), and what I was able to get done on them, I laugh....
And does anyone see the parallel with the Java Network Appliances that were going to be "the next big thing" at the end of the 90's? Certainly, we live in a much more connected world today, but to pretend that nothing of value is done on PCs except opening up a browser is a bit of a blindered view, IMO. Oh well, it's all just speculation until there's a product..