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Chrome - living in a Google world? 5:08pm on 08 Jul 2009 Having read the TechCrunch article suggesting that all applications for COS will be written in HTML5 and thus compatible with standards compliance browsers - this may work for some applications, but not for a great deal of others. Computer code runs most efficiently as machine code compilation. High-level languages such as HTML are translated on the fly, and are thus by definition, less efficient. We won't see Photoshop or complex 3D games on COS. We might not even see GIMP or its other open source siblings, as any program of sophistication and complexity simply won't run on the average PC if written in HTML5. Yes, we have a growing number of web applications, but would any designer or photographer seriously consider Aviary as a replacement for Photoshop, or even GIMP, etc? Or Google Docs as a replacement for MS Office, or OpenOffice.org? Look at what happened when Apple launched the original iPhone with web-apps capability only - the phone sold, but there was widespread derision. When the opened up the AppStore to allow native applications, that was when the iPhone REALLY took off. Native apps have native access to system resources and are able to run at maximal speed. Microsoft and Apple, I think you're safe for a few years yet!
Listening to Mr iPhone 7:42pm on 01 Jul 2009 quote:
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15. At 6:41pm on 01 Jul 2009, A moose wrote:
"I hadn't" heard of Jonathan Ive.

You are labelled as BBC's technology correspondent? You might as well say you hadn't heard of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. Have you heard of Steve Ballmer? Microsoft?

My apologies if by 'Technology' you mean 'I've seen a computer. It was beige'.
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'A moose', RCJ didn't say he'd never heard of Jonathan Ive! He said he'd never heard him talk about his work! Read carefully before flaming!

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