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  Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-10 09:05 +0000
    Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-04-11 09:37 +0200
      Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-12 15:13 +0000

#2341 — Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later

From the «this post sponsored by Netscape Navigator 3.4» department:
Title: 'The browser is the operating system' 10 years on on mobile
Author: Jean-Louis Gassée
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:39:05 -0400
Link: http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663871/s/3929d201/sc/15/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Ctechnology0C20A140Capr0C0A90Csoftware0Einternet/story01.htm
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Did Marc Andreessen really say that 'the browser is the OS', and what does
the new information about app use on mobile mean for it?

So it was declared in the early days: web apps will win over native apps. Why
let the facts cloud an appealing theory?

Marc Andreessen, the Netscape[1] co-founder, is credited with many bold,
visionary claims[2]such as "Everyone Will Have the Web" (ca. 1992), "Web
Businesses Will Live in the Cloud" (1999), "Everything Will Be Social" (2004,
four years before joining Facebook's Board), and "Software Will Eat the World
" (2009).

"[I]f you grant me the very big assumption that at some point we will have
ubiquitous, high-speed wireless connectivity, then in time everything will
end up back in the web model."

Q: Does the web browser become something like an operating system?

A: No, it becomes a new type of platform. It doesn't try to do the things an
operating system does. Instead of trying to deal with keyboards, mouses,
memory, CPUs, and disk drives, it deals with databases and files that people
want to secure transactions and things like that. We're going to make it
possible for people to plug in anything they want.
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Links:
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape (link)
[2]: http://blog.vermonttechnologies.com/entrepreneur/the-man-who-makes-the-future-wired-icon-marc-andreessen/ (link)
[3]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/09/software-internet (link)
[4]: http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663871/s/3929d201/sc/15/mf.gif (image)
[5]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/1/rc.htm (link)
[6]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/1/rc.img (image)
[7]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/2/rc.htm (link)
[8]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/2/rc.img (image)
[9]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/3/rc.htm (link)
[10]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/rc/3/rc.img (image)
[11]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/a2.htm (link)
[12]: http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/a2.img (image)
[13]: http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/194479917176/u/0/f/663871/c/34708/s/3929d201/sc/15/a2t.img (image)

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#2360

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> Title: 'The browser is the operating system' 10 years on on mobile
> Author: Jean-Louis Gassée
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Of Apple and Be Inc. fame!

-- 
> cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs
Slackware 14.0
Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36

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#2369

Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> Wrote in message:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
>> Title: 'The browser is the operating system' 10 years on on mobile
>> Author: Jean-Louis Gass�e
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Of Apple and Be Inc. fame!
> 
> -- 
>> cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs
> Slackware 14.0
> Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
> 

Yep, Jean-Louis seems to be a permanent guest journalist these
 days.  Bit of a step down from former positions, if you ask me. 
 They were right, of course: we're all headed to a browser-rich
 world, and its name is probably "Chrome" unless someone provides
 an alternative.  In an alternate universe I'd be looking to
 Microsoft to provide a competing solution: they're clearly rich
 enough in money and technical staff to be able to take on a
 challenge like this.  Too bad under Ballmer they were focused
 only on preserving the Office/Win monopoly, and this clearly
 would take a huge wooden stake and drive it through that
 monopoly's heart.

Sad though when you think about how many orders of magnitude
 greater resources are required in order to accomplish things that
 were basically accomplished on "primitive" (I use the word tongue
 in cheek) time-sharing systems of the 1970s.  Imagine how many
 layers of abstraction go into a Word Processor running on
 Javascript, for example.  

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