__/ [ rapskat ] on Thursday 01 June 2006 06:23 \__
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:57:05 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Picasa for Linux is a good Windows application
>>
>> ,----[ Quotea ]
>> | Perhaps I'm silly but the Google I'd like to see is a Google that
>> | doesn't release cheap, half baked "ports" that aren't actually ports at
>> | all but actually second rate repackaged mixes of old code, but one
>> | Google that instead commits manpower and resources to enhance and build
>> | great open source products around Google's web services, of course,
>> | the bread and butter of the Corporation.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32088
>
>
> This is pretty much how I felt after I saw it. On the one hand, I'm glad
> that Google is at least showing forth some effort to include Linux desktop
> users in their products.
>
> However, on the other hand, I really wish they would release native apps
> truly made for the platform and not just cheat by packaging up their
> Windows binaries with Wine and calling it a "Linux app".
>
> At the very least, they should have made it web based IMO.
It would have been rather impractical because of bandwidth. When people start
using GDrive, this will become a reasonable proposal. I believe that
Microsoft already have an answer (i.e. rival) to the GDrive. Just wait and
watch...
Think <Google Maps>-<Google Earth>. They already use ActiveX controls in
Internet Explorer (I was never pleased about this at all), in order to
achieve smooth zooming. When polygons rendering over the Web becomes a
possibility, they could deliver more up-to-date content with better control
on their side (e.g. software patches).
Best wishes,
Roy
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