In this article on ZDNet titled “Why can’t Google’s second act be Rich Internet Applications?“, Ryan Stewart writes about Google‘s future limitations and lack of growth potential because of the wider lack of adoption of “Web 2.0″.
I dislike this way of addressing the next phase of the internet to start with, but I suppose if technologies like AJAX and philosophies like SAS must all be grouped under one heading then this will have to do for the moment. It is exceptionally naive to make a statement as if people are not adopting web delivered applications. People have been using web delivered applications or systems for almost as long as the internet has been around – it is not a new idea. The only thing that is new here is how the user can interact with these applications – and technologies like AJAX are doing wonders for the user experience.
The point that I am particularly disappointed with in the article is that there is limited potential for these web delivered apps because people still want an offline version. In the very near future, it will be hard to find an offline terminal – so why will people need a version that can run disconnected?
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