Comments on: What Applications? http://davemorin.com/blog/what-applications/ Live Life Well. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:54:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeremiah http://davemorin.com/blog/what-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Jeremiah Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:21:11 +0000 http://davemorin.com/blog/2005/what-applications/#comment-108 I have 10 applications in my dock. I agree with your observation that the number of desktop applications is diminishing. Mail, iCal, and NetNewsWire are the only applications remaining in my dock that could be made into a web application. Honestly, I've tried many webmail interfaces and even G-Mail doesn't cut it as a replacement for Mail's highly intuitive and responsive UI. Accidentally hit the back button and watch it freeze in Safari. For my calendars, display and editing could be put online, but the browser limits functions like syncing with my iPod and/or cell phone. If anything, I believe that web applications will be a counterpart -- not a replacement -- for desktop applications. In the more single task oriented areas, I've noticed a shift to the use of applications that are just interfaces to web-backends. I think that these instances will decrease with the introduction of Macromedia Flex and other rich UI platforms. Also worth considering is how the importance of open formats increases with various interfaces manipulating the same data. I have 10 applications in my dock. I agree with your observation that the number of desktop applications is diminishing. Mail, iCal, and NetNewsWire are the only applications remaining in my dock that could be made into a web application.

Honestly, I’ve tried many webmail interfaces and even G-Mail doesn’t cut it as a replacement for Mail’s highly intuitive and responsive UI. Accidentally hit the back button and watch it freeze in Safari. For my calendars, display and editing could be put online, but the browser limits functions like syncing with my iPod and/or cell phone.

If anything, I believe that web applications will be a counterpart — not a replacement — for desktop applications. In the more single task oriented areas, I’ve noticed a shift to the use of applications that are just interfaces to web-backends. I think that these instances will decrease with the introduction of Macromedia Flex and other rich UI platforms.

Also worth considering is how the importance of open formats increases with various interfaces manipulating the same data.

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