Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe13.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Thufir Subject: Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <4f78eff3$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.65.42.92 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: newsfe13.iad 1333332181 184.65.42.92 (Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:03:01 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:03:01 UTC Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:00:27 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 2025 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13293 On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:40:10 -0300, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>> You're assuming everyone has stable, non-infected pc's. The whole >>> point of the cloud, insofar as I can tell, to avoid annoying support >>> calls which end in either "reboot" or "re-install". >> >> That is not a common reason given. > > Not having to worry about the infrastructure is in fact one of the most > common reasons for going to the cloud. If you look at IaaS, PaaS, SaaS > (or any others of the derivative ?aaS's) all of them relieve you of some > degree of worry about (read "support for") some aspect of IT. Exactly. That Windows is prevalent is undoubtedly an indirect reason for all this cloud stuff -- it expressly avoids dealing with Windows directly. Instead you deal with the browser. Which, of course, is where ActiveX extensions come in... If everyone was on an iMac or something reliable and secure, then desktop apps would rule, is my point. Or, to turn that question around: *why* medium sized businesses like their stuff in the cloud? Only because it eliminates the local pc as a problem, I say.