P.S. I tried to post a comment on your article but strangely couldn't, persistent server error ... so let me post it here instead:
Interesting! but should we call Google "evil" for pursuing this strategy?
I don't think so ... every company tries to optimize their profits, it's natural and it ain't evil by itself - but the outcome of what Google is doing is to further the open Web standards (based on HTML, CSS, JS) at the detriment of the proprietary "plugins" like Flash, Java and Silverlight ...
That's progress in my book, in the end the open Web as an application platform (even though not perfect, but then what is ...) means we all win in the end.
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P.S. I tried to post a comment on your article but strangely couldn't, persistent server error ... so let me post it here instead:
Interesting! but should we call Google "evil" for pursuing this strategy?
I don't think so ... every company tries to optimize their profits, it's natural and it ain't evil by itself - but the outcome of what Google is doing is to further the open Web standards (based on HTML, CSS, JS) at the detriment of the proprietary "plugins" like Flash, Java and Silverlight ...
That's progress in my book, in the end the open Web as an application platform (even though not perfect, but then what is ...) means we all win in the end.