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

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later
Date	2014-04-10 09:05 +0000
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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.
Continue reading...[3][image 4]
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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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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

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