On 16 October 2012 21:39, blake <dsblakewatson@gmail.com> wrote:
And let me remind you , that personal computers appeared long before 1995.
I got my Apple ][+ in 1979. But I was a geek, and both my parents were geeks. (Before that, my dad and I worked on our own ADVENT, using the Fortran code from Colossal Cave.)
Geeks will doubtless still continue to have and want desktops.
IMO, the fundamental difference between personal computer apps, that they rely on capabilities of your personal computer. While web-apps, obviously not.
Screen-size is a personal computer capability. Input devices are. Other output devices (e.g., sounds or vibrations) are. Flash is. Anything executing locally requires understanding of capabilities. Bandwidth, although not usually bottlenecked at the device point these days, is still a capability.
As for your list of "never"s--well, never say never.
i am pretty confident, as long as speed of light remains finite :)
The Internet in general is an unsafe mess--and yet here we are.
let the carrier be with you! (an old modem era joke ;)
===Blake===
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.