[pretzel]

What we need is the desktop as the container...

But really, what we are talking about is just a resurgence of thin clients. And why not? They make sense. No updating software, all your files are there for you whereever you go and today we have the bandwidth to handle it (we do vid downloads without batting an eyelid!).

Especially with Google's gears coming along, it will mean we can do everything offline. It's getting close to CMS your home dir and apps.

When I was in high school (15 years ago or so) I said the perfect computer app would be one where you didn't know it was there and just used it to do what ever you wanted, like in TNG. This is getting close!

[hello_moto]

1. Privacy (and don't tell me it is overrated, it's not) 2. Reliability (yes, I do understand my hard drive can fail, but my OS doesn't delete my e-mail just as GMail did) 3. And the fact that I have to go online to fetch my file

[pretzel]

1. Encryption

2. Local storage

3. Local storage