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Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem

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In article <timmcn-0F3A78.11294117042011@news.iphouse.com>,
 Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-2DF221.17102417042011@pbook.sture.ch>,
>  Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> 
> > In article <2JednZAWHdE26jXQnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> >  Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > As to servers, it's a commodity market where there is competition 
> > > outside the Apple walls that businesses can't ignore on an 
> > > immediate capital outlay basis.
> > 
> > The server market is not just a commodity market, though that does 
> > make up a significant chunk of it.
> > 
> > Oracle and Cisco are now making moves into the server market, and 
> > then there are all the cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, VMware, 
> > Microsoft, none of whom have been hardware suppliers in the past (OK 
> > VMware belongs to EMC now).
> 
> And some kind of cloud service probably pending from Apple, given that 
> they have built a new giant data center in the past year and may be 
> building another one, IIRC.  Whether they are positioning themselves to 
> do some kind of enterprise cloud service remains to be seen.

I'd forgotten about that.

> Funny that the PC revolution has come full circle and is now looking 
> more and more like the old IBM model of terminals on a mainframe.  If 
> you keep thinking different long enough, I guess you end up back where 
> you started...

In the same way that we moved from block mode IBM terminals (send a 
whole screen of data, then validate it) to asynchronous serial terminals 
where you could validate on a field by field basis, we have now moved to 
AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which can do the same.

And there's been a lot of talk lately about virtual desktops.  The 
killer for that years ago was bandwidth, but we have that now.

We've come full circle, except now we have pretty graphics.

But it's got so complex on the way that very few if anybody at all can 
understand all the components in depth.

-- 
Paul Sture

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OS X and the iToy ecosystem AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-15 07:03 -0700
  Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-04-15 09:58 -0500
    Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-15 16:37 -0400
  Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 08:12 -0700
    Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-15 11:10 -0700
    Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-15 16:38 -0400
      Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2011-04-15 17:54 -0400
      Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 14:56 -0700
        Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-15 19:27 -0400
          Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 22:32 -0700
            Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 10:15 +0000
            Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-04-16 10:42 -0500
  Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2011-04-15 11:37 -0400
    Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2011-04-15 12:51 -0400
      Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-17 17:10 +0200
        Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-17 11:29 -0500
          Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> - 2011-04-17 11:16 -0700
            Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2011-04-17 11:48 -0700
              Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-18 10:22 +0200
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2011-04-18 07:44 -0500
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 08:47 -0400
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 14:13 +0000
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-19 13:42 +0200
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2011-04-19 22:12 -0400
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 11:33 +0000
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Kiraly <ggrandish@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 15:16 -0700
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-18 19:48 -0400
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2011-04-19 02:58 +0000
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-04-18 07:45 -0500
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 10:13 -0400
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-04-18 14:49 -0500
                Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2011-04-18 22:53 +0000
          Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-18 10:20 +0200
        Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2011-04-17 12:37 -0400
  Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-15 17:11 -0500
  Re: OS X and the iToy ecosystem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 10:15 +0000

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